Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read?

Re:Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read? by JimDabell on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:32AM (#48379927)

Who is “we”? Head over to Reddit and you will see that plenty of people do not notice even the most obvious AI-generated engagement bait and happily spend their time talking to it. Even the people that post about how awful AI is will chat about that very subject to a spam bot without realising.

The average person is not good at spotting AI-generated content. They accept it and want to read it just as long as they don’t realise it’s not real.

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Re:Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read? by miyoji on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:36AM (#48379949)

To be fair, a lot of the "people" talking to the engagement baiting AI are AI commenters themselves.

But you don't need to "head over to Reddit", this is happening on HN too, with both content and comments.

I wouldn't say that most Reddit or Hacker News comments rise to the level of something that I "want to read", though.

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Re:Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read? by JimDabell on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:40AM (#48379967)

> To be fair, a lot of the "people" talking to the engagement baiting AI are AI commenters themselves.

This is true, but there’s a huge amount of real engagement as well.

> But you don't need to "head over to Reddit", this is happening on HN too, with both content and comments.

True, but it seems to get a lot less traction here.

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Re:Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read? by georgemcbay on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:34AM (#48379941)

> Head over to Reddit and you will see that plenty of people do not notice even the most obvious AI-generated engagement bait and happily spend their time talking to it.

I don't think you have to head over to anywhere else to see this.

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Re:Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read? by JimDabell on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:38AM (#48379956)

I’ve seen it a bit here as well of course, but generally speaking Hacker News does a much better job of avoiding that. I think it might just be because it’s more sensitive to flagging.

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Re:Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read? by doctorpangloss on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:40AM (#48379969)

my estimate is maybe 20% of engaged reddit content is fully LLM authored ("100% AI")

openclaw is wildly popular in some regions of the world. jay caspian kang should write about why. it could involve some much needed introspection.

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Re:Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read? by ptole_my on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @07:29AM (#48382593)

same here. id say a quarter of the posts people are reacting to on hn are ai generated

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