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Ask HN: What's the long-term future of online human discussion?

3 points by SsgMshdPotatoes ↗ HN
I'm just curious about the best takes on this: do you see any way in which human discussion forums like HN survive in the long term? How, and by the way, what would be a good measure of success (because there is a whole spectrum of AI influence: AI shaping beliefs of participants, users letting AI write exact posts/comments, users letting AI only reformat posts/comments, etc)?

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9rx
The same as the past? The medium is the message. AI doesn't change the medium.
marysminefnuf
every substack link I clicked on from hn this morning was ai generated. ai photo and text lol. that means when we comment on those posts we are commenting on someones prompting and not that persons original thoughts. there needs to be a zero ai tag we can filter so I dont have to consume ai gen content. its getting ridiculous