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Ask HN: How will HN transition to allowing AI writing when society accepts it?

1 points by amichail ↗ HN
In the near future, using AI to write will be just as acceptable as using glasses to read.

How will HN make the transition when this happens?

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gnabgib
Strange assumption. Why would it want to?

HN is already struggling with losing valued members, mods, and contributions because of significantly more low value/high noise submissions and comments. As are many community sites (forums, advice, professional assistance).

Sites that don't ban and remove AI will become entirely AI, if that's your thing there's plenty of them around, why does HN have to morph into that? It resisted morphing into a self-promotion site (eg. ProductHunt, GumRoad), a crypto site, a security-vulnerability site (some exceptions), a political battleground (struggling), a blog repost site (some exceptions), a version release site, an unofficial big-tech support site.

benoau
> HN is already struggling with losing valued members, mods

I can still remember when they hired dang and he's still around, I see people posting I recognize from 18 years ago when I first started reading this site...

verdverm
HN recently added a new mod tomhow

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558671

benoau
That's a second moderator, dang has been moderating since PG left a dozen or whatever years ago and still is. So they've lost zero moderators unless I'm missing something?

And still have what looks like a very healthy number of long-time users, although I didn't dig deeper than the top 10.

verdverm
The HN mods are fantastic and a large reason this site remains the gem it is (mostly). There is certainly a lot more slop posts and comments, as well as the effect from a decade with Trump as the world's center of attention.

Still, HN is full of quality content and people. I would not be who I am without it. Perhaps another enterprising HN'r will do one of those great analyses for account age, activity, and churn - and let us know!

dabinat
Why post at all if you don’t consider it important enough to spend time writing yourself?