I'm new to HN and was initially excited about the various intellectual and technological posts ... but isn't this literally just written by AI?

I've read like 5 posts in a row and it's starting to dawn on me that all this might be written by AI. Why tf would you even bother posting slop like that?

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tux3 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's been really bad the last few months. You'd think people would want to share human blogs written by people. But half of the links are just different themes on different blogs all ghostwritten by Claude.

	▲	CuriouslyC 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The problem is that we have a bunch of people trying to keep themselves relevant amid a great reshuffle, and there's so much noise that lovingly hand-crafted content gets ignored, so your only rational option if you don't already have an established audience is to slopspam.

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davisr 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are you AI? You joined HN 5 years ago, dawg.

	▲	Pay08 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Account creation time may not line up with when someone actually started using the platform.

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surgical_fire 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> but isn't this literally just written by AI?

Evidently.

> Why tf would you even bother posting slop like that?

Maybe low-effort internet point farming? Maybe an attempt to rake in some ad money in the odd chance the post goes viral?

> I'm new to HN and was initially excited about the various intellectual and technological posts

Ehh... It's marginally above Reddit, but that is a very low bar to overcome.

It's decent toilet time.