A good portion of what's on the front page at any given time is LLM output. I think the site explicitly made a decision that this is OK when they banned AI-generated comments but not AI-generated submissions.
I think that most people here just don't mind, or even favor this if they're AI accelerationists. Case in point are all the high-scoring hobby projects that are just "I asked Claude to make me X and then write an article about it".
If they couldn't bother to spend the time to write the writeup about a subject they're supposedly passionate about why should any of us bother spending time reading it?
-- particularly given that it's easy to use AI to do the skut work that it's good at, like digging up citation links, without using it to write which its extremely poor at.
I just find myself instantly closing without reading a large percentage of HN submissions these days.
I think that most people here just don't mind, or even favor this if they're AI accelerationists. Case in point are all the high-scoring hobby projects that are just "I asked Claude to make me X and then write an article about it".
-- particularly given that it's easy to use AI to do the skut work that it's good at, like digging up citation links, without using it to write which its extremely poor at.
I just find myself instantly closing without reading a large percentage of HN submissions these days.
I flag all such articles. I can generate them myself if I want them.