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Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp by twoodfin on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @09:33PM (#46611571)
This platform sees high front page placement / hundreds of votes for AI-written … uh sorry I mean “I used the AI to clean up my notes” … content daily.

I have an allergic reaction to it and flag, but clearly a majority of the hn voting population appreciates it, so if it isn’t banned it will continue.

Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp by SchemaLoad on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:18PM (#46611889)
I think the majority of HN users don't even read the article and just use the headline as a conversation starter.
Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp by twoodfin on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:01AM (#46614618)
That’s probably right; you can often spot an LLM-assisted post from the overly dramatic title.

Anecdotally, though, these articles seem to have a disproportionate number of, “Wow, this article is so interesting & insightful”-class comments. I really have come around to accepting that a big part of the audience here enjoys what LLM’s produce given hn-ish prompts.

I’d rather see the prompt!

Oh look, another one this morning at #3:

https://www.simplethread.com/redis-solidqueue/

Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp by tomjen3 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:19AM (#46612621)
I use writing to think - I also happen to be really good at typing so fast my hands don't coordinate. And I am a terrible speller.

If I wanted to publish my writing, people would focus on that, and not the content of the writing. If I run it through Kimi K2, people will focus on my ideas.