Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?

5•dwa3592•5h ago

or How has AI generated content changed what and how you read?

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aewz6•4h ago

Stopped reading books. I just ask for summaries of what I am interested in and then deep dive. Then I make notes of the whole session. Review it everyday and keep shrinking it down as much as possible. That file I preload as memory for next session.

dwa3592•3h ago

>>Stopped reading books.

Because they could AI generated or because summaries are enough to understand the main ideas?- what if the book is AI generated in the first place?

What about news articles?

sdevonoes•1h ago

Good try, Sam Altman

sminchev•2h ago

Reading a book, I do for fun. to get the stress away. Reading a novel is a whole new experience. To feel the story, imagine the characters, imagine how they feel, how they think. To really hate the bad guy....

AI can't replace that!

dwa3592•2h ago

Nice! do you worry that you might start reading a book and it turns out to be AI generated?

sminchev•2h ago

There are enough history novels out there ;)

sdevonoes•1h ago

There is enough good material pre 2022

Blackstrat•2h ago

Fundamentally, if it comes from AI, I'm not interested. I would not rely on AI summaries, and certainly nothing identified as AI produced. AI is not creative in the human sense. I would never knowingly waste time reading something produced by a room full of monkeys banging on a keyboard. The same is true of AI produced code. LLMs are a malignancy that needs to be excised from society.

dwa3592•1h ago

haha, i get that feeling sometimes. do you look for acknowledged use of AI? how do you tell it's coming from AI?

ValtteriL•2h ago

For AI written content I have a very low tolerance. I bounce right away when I notice I'm reading generated content, especially if it tries to be an essay or anything else than direct answer to my question at hand.

When it comes to books, I avoid anything written by an author debuting after 2022 unless there is a strong recommendation by someone close.

As for genres, it has made me read less purely technical books. My assumption is that I can learn enough of the subject as I go by chatting with a model.

dwa3592•1h ago

>>When it comes to books, I avoid anything written by an author debuting after 2022

I like that and that's what i have been doing.

Do you go by the feels that the content you are reading is AI generated?

bdangubic•1h ago

> When it comes to books, I avoid anything written by an author debuting after 2022

This is how civilizations end… Like we are done writing books now? Art too? We gonna stop here? Not sure I understand how this makes any sense…

dwa3592•1h ago

>>This is how civilizations end.

I concur. It doesn't make any sense.

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