HN is the most concentrated accelerationist audience in the whole world and its very particular type of crowd. I don't think this translates at all to general public (well, maybe I would agree with you that the aesthetic sense of people on here is really less sophisticated than average).

My point is that most of these “vibe articles” are pretty bad. They’re muddled in their ideas and full of gaps in logic or fact.

But the aesthetics are tuned enough to get upvotes from this same audience that thinks AI music is going nowhere.

nah, you just have some anthropocentric arrogance that only humans can write well. It is nothing to do with sophistication.

Same thing with music - I honestly prefer the clanker groups, largely because some of the genres I like were clearly not explored well by actual humans. The AI songs are just better for that reason. Reddit is full of people sad/mad when they find out the groups are AIs and not humans. I went through it too but now I just enjoy the music.

I think there's probably some type of value in the preservation of human art, but to say that it's better in a vacuum is just ignoring reality.

Exactly backwards: These articles suck because the writing sucks. There was this morning a well-written, engaging article about building a Gameboy emulator in F# that the author admitted using some LLM help to compose. Easy upvote.

It’s not impossible to get these tools to make your writing better, and presumably that will become easier over time. But if you don’t put in the effort & your own clear ideas, the result today is garbage. But pleasing garbage to a wide swath of the hn audience. Pop tech writing!

There are underexplored musical genres?

There's currently a serious lack of banjo and didgeridoo collaboration, aside from that one human band from Elcho Island.

Clearly the world needs Clankers to bridge the shortfall of six fingered circular mouth breathers /s

Could you give some examples of such articles?

Here’s a sample of my “flagged” list from just the past few days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952807

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949585

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897140

Not the person you're replying to, but here's one that was at the top of the homepage this morning (and that I immediately clicked out of because it had that AI stink). I would bet my next paycheck that this was heavily edited by an LLM, if not outright written by one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973376

OK, but to qualify it also needs glowing comments about the writing, not just interaction with the concept (or title) of the article. Only one person did that ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973724

... then got contradicted and downvoted.

Gotta go back two weeks, but this is the kind of comment I had in mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808139

Fair, lol. I will admit I didn't read the comments :P

It’s also hard to develop taste in an environment flooded with content. I am not sure how much of that is AI writing getting better, and how much of that is just a lack of taste from the newest members