Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?
5 pointsby dwa35926 hours ago5 comments
  • ValtteriL3 hours ago
    For AI written content I have a very low tolerance. I bounce right away when I notice I'm reading generated content, especially if it tries to be an essay or anything else than direct answer to my question at hand.

    When it comes to books, I avoid anything written by an author debuting after 2022 unless there is a strong recommendation by someone close.

    As for genres, it has made me read less purely technical books. My assumption is that I can learn enough of the subject as I go by chatting with a model.

    • dwa35923 hours ago
      >>When it comes to books, I avoid anything written by an author debuting after 2022

      I like that and that's what i have been doing.

      Do you go by the feels that the content you are reading is AI generated?

    • bdangubic2 hours ago
      > When it comes to books, I avoid anything written by an author debuting after 2022

      This is how civilizations end… Like we are done writing books now? Art too? We gonna stop here? Not sure I understand how this makes any sense…

      • dwa35922 hours ago
        >>This is how civilizations end.

        I concur. It doesn't make any sense.

  • Blackstrat4 hours ago
    Fundamentally, if it comes from AI, I'm not interested. I would not rely on AI summaries, and certainly nothing identified as AI produced. AI is not creative in the human sense. I would never knowingly waste time reading something produced by a room full of monkeys banging on a keyboard. The same is true of AI produced code. LLMs are a malignancy that needs to be excised from society.
    • dwa35923 hours ago
      haha, i get that feeling sometimes. do you look for acknowledged use of AI? how do you tell it's coming from AI?
  • sminchev4 hours ago
    Reading a book, I do for fun. to get the stress away. Reading a novel is a whole new experience. To feel the story, imagine the characters, imagine how they feel, how they think. To really hate the bad guy....

    AI can't replace that!

    • dwa35924 hours ago
      Nice! do you worry that you might start reading a book and it turns out to be AI generated?
      • sminchev4 hours ago
        There are enough history novels out there ;)
      • sdevonoes3 hours ago
        There is enough good material pre 2022
  • aewz66 hours ago
    Stopped reading books. I just ask for summaries of what I am interested in and then deep dive. Then I make notes of the whole session. Review it everyday and keep shrinking it down as much as possible. That file I preload as memory for next session.
    • sdevonoes3 hours ago
      Good try, Sam Altman
    • dwa35925 hours ago
      >>Stopped reading books.

      Because they could AI generated or because summaries are enough to understand the main ideas?- what if the book is AI generated in the first place?

      What about news articles?

  • hamza9876543212 hours ago
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