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115 points cdipaolo | 5 comments | 07 Sep 25 16:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.017s | source
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linotype[dead post] ◴[07 Sep 25 17:15 UTC] No.45160084[source]▶
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neitherboosh ◴[07 Sep 25 17:27 UTC] No.45160243[source]▶
Hm, this comment makes me realize that there isn’t really a social consensus on whether or not AI generated content is welcome in these kinds of discussions. On one hand, I’m generally annoyed any time I see unsolicited AI generations because it’s usually garbage and I could have just asked an AI myself. But in this case I probably wasn’t going to and this comment is genuinely insightful…

I guess I would have preferred some kind of qualifier at the beginning saying it’s not written by a human

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1. linotype ◴[07 Sep 25 17:32 UTC] No.45160291[source]▶
Can you point out what part of the summary is wrong? You’re welcome to write your own summary that’s as detailed as the one I posted with any necessary corrections and I’ll delete my post.
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2. shaldengeki ◴[07 Sep 25 17:43 UTC] No.45160421[source]▶
HN's moderation team has been pretty clear that generated comments aren't welcome here. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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3. linotype ◴[07 Sep 25 18:10 UTC] No.45160716[source]▶
They’re free to delete it. I think it adds value.
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4. neitherboosh ◴[07 Sep 25 19:36 UTC] No.45161434[source]▶
I actually don’t think the summary is bad and I do think the comment is helpful and am glad to have read it; I just would have preferred to know it was AI before I started reading.
5. tomhow ◴[08 Sep 25 08:46 UTC] No.45165994{3}[source]▶
We don't delete things that users have posted (unless they specifically ask us to).

It's long been a norm on HN that summary/tl;dr comments are not welcome. We want people's comments to be in response to the full article, not the summary. Sometimes a summary will be an inaccurate representation of the article, and when users base their response on the summary (without reading the article), it poisons the comments thread.

You weren't to know as it's not explicitly stated in the guidelines, but it is one of the norms that the moderation team and community has converged on over many years.