Ask HN: How do you feel about AI assisted blogging?

1 pointsthrowarayes9d ago2 comments

How do you feel when you learn someone has been using AI heavily to help them write? Setting aside English as a second language.

My knee-jerk is to find it disappointing. But maybe I’m missing some nuance. And I don’t have the same negative reaction to AI coding.

But if you’re going to ask me to read a blog article, I don’t quite enjoy it when it’s not in your own words. I want to be in conversation with you, not you intermediated through an LLM.

While I don’t particularly care about a bit of LLM spellchecking or copy editing. I’d rather have human language warts and all than perfect AI-speak.

That’s the rant. But what am I missing?

2 comments

chris-raygray9d ago

My first reaction is to feel distain for that person, especially if it's a blog or a long post. But recently I read a post on X that was clearly written with help of AI but the content was very solid.

I realized that the author really thought about the topic but lacked writing skills to express it. So I think if the idea is solid, I don't mind if they used AI. Within reason of course.

smcg9d ago

It's probably going to produce a worse product and I don't have time to read mediocre blog posts.