The thing that stands out to me with all of this is how little accountability there is left within the field.

Published a rip-off? "Sorry, Claude must have done this".

Published a shitty/wrong/insensitive/<insert other adjectives here> post somewhere? "Sorry, the AI wrote it"

Regardless of how we view LLMs as a whole, if you produce content with AI and publish it, you personally own every line of what you published. "Claude did it" cannot ever be a valid excuse.

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willtemperley 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> "Claude did it" cannot ever be a valid excuse.

I think this an incredibly important point. As soon as we devolve reposnsiblity to computer progams, society cedes control to the algorithm vendors.

Jeff Geerling was called out today for his clickbaity video entitled "Intel just matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.". Jeff's personal response was "I had three YouTube titles, this one got about 2x the watch time as the other two, so I let YT pick it."

Another commenter replied: "You are trying to launder responsibility for a clickbait title to a computer program." I think this exactly nailed the problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223079

	▲	thraway3837 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's funny, I saw that YT video in my feed and instantly was turned off from ever wanting to click on it. I know there is a write up about it, so I'd rather read than watch. Esp knowing what I know now.
	▲	slopinthebag an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What a funny thread. Probably not a great first impression for potential viewers

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MrDrone 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think it's time to bring back the IBM classic.

> A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision

	▲	padjo an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think we're at the point where people are making the opposite conclusion from the premise: Let's let the computer make the decision because then we can't be held accountable.

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cube00 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My favorite is when they're clearly caught out so they move on to trying to minimise the use and optionally passively aggressively turn it back on you.

"I was genuinely only using Claude to make my writing clearer/redraft/to organize my thoughts because I can't write as well as you can"

The new one for me this week was someone claiming they write exactly like Claude does.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212416

	▲	BalinKing 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There are enough grammatical oddities (e.g. "reads off", "my not-the-proudest") in the linked excerpt that I'm honestly inclined to believe them.