Ask HN: Why disparage AI while attributing ideas to AI when written with it?

1 pointsamichail1d ago6 comments

This is something that I see done all the time on social media.

If you write up an idea you had with AI, people will say that the idea came from AI. And yet these same people will also disparage AIs abilities.

This seems contradictory to me.

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Npovview1d ago

Another point is AI should be so advanced that only one shotting the solution is truly considered as AI.

90% of everything is crap. Sturgeon's Law. We produce crap all the time and yet expect AI to be perfect the first time. Have they ever seen the first draft of any book?

bigyabai1d ago

Because LLMs are expert liars?

amichailOP1d ago

I mean if they don't think AI is particularly creative, why attribute novel ideas that you had but wrote with the help of AI to the AI?

bigyabai1d ago

Why does it matter what people think? The attribution ultimately doesn't matter, a truly novel idea is self-evident and speaks for itself.

amichailOP1d ago

The problem is that most people on social media don't think like that.

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Npovview1d ago

Another point is AI should be so advanced that only one shotting the solution is truly considered as AI.

90% of everything is crap. Sturgeon's Law. We produce crap all the time and yet expect AI to be perfect the first time. Have they ever seen the first draft of any book?

bigyabai1d ago

Because LLMs are expert liars?

amichailOP1d ago

I mean if they don't think AI is particularly creative, why attribute novel ideas that you had but wrote with the help of AI to the AI?

bigyabai1d ago

Why does it matter what people think? The attribution ultimately doesn't matter, a truly novel idea is self-evident and speaks for itself.

amichailOP1d ago

The problem is that most people on social media don't think like that.

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