Ask HN: Why disparage AI while attributing ideas to AI when written with it?

1•amichail•47m ago

This is something that I see done all the time on social media.

If you write up an idea you had with AI, people will say that the idea came from AI. And yet these same people will also disparage AIs abilities.

This seems contradictory to me.

Comments

bigyabai•46m ago

Because LLMs are expert liars?

amichail•45m ago

I mean if they don't think AI is particularly creative, why attribute novel ideas that you had but wrote with the help of AI to the AI?

bigyabai•37m ago

Why does it matter what people think? The attribution ultimately doesn't matter, a truly novel idea is self-evident and speaks for itself.

amichail•36m ago

The problem is that most people on social media don't think like that.

bigyabai•28m ago

That's not a problem, though. You aren't owed attention for a theoretical idea, especially if you waste people's time with AI boilerplate text.

Those ideas will almost always be ignored if the author neglects their due diligence to test the idea and document real-world results. Influencers like Jeff Geerling and Tom Scott would be (rightfully!) hated if they published their video ideas in the form of an AI-generated outline.

Npovview•27m ago

Another point is AI should be so advanced that only one shotting the solution is truly considered as AI.

90% of everything is crap. Sturgeon's Law. We produce crap all the time and yet expect AI to be perfect the first time. Have they ever seen the first draft of any book?

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