Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?

ddwa3592 about 10 hours ago 14 comments

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ValtteriL•about 7 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.

dwa3592•about 6 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?

bdangubic•about 6 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…

dwa3592•about 6 hours ago

>>This is how civilizations end.

I concur. It doesn't make any sense.

catcowcostume•about 1 hour ago

One guys stops reading post 2022 books and civilization will end?

Everyone has their own standards. There are people not reading post 1900 books for a while and we still have new books. Let people live by their own rules ffs

Blackstrat•about 7 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.

dwa3592•about 6 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?

sminchev•about 8 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!

dwa3592•about 7 hours ago

Nice! do you worry that you might start reading a book and it turns out to be AI generated?

sminchev•about 7 hours ago

There are enough history novels out there ;)

sdevonoes•about 6 hours ago

There is enough good material pre 2022

aewz6•about 9 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.