HACKER Q&A
📣 linotype

Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?


Recently I received a lot of negative feedback from a few HNers about an AI summary I posted about a complex immigration concept (changes to non-Immigrant visas in the US). The post received a number of upvotes but the comments were negative from Anti-AI folks. I’ve seen a number of negative posts about AI here as well. Would there be any interest in a static site that would regularly scan the public HN posts from their API and generate AI summaries of the content without a comment section?

  👤 3np Accepted Answer ✓
No. And it's not just "anti-AI folks" who consider it spam and noise to copy-paste LLM summaries into a discussion forum.
👤 ForHackernews
Why? Anyone who wanted that could copy-paste into chatgpt or install a browser extension to do it for them.
👤 minimaxir
The main reason your comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160084) got downvoted was because you gave a summary without disclosing it's AI-generated, which made other users upset.

But even if you did disclose, it's still against HN rules:

> Generated comments aren't allowed here; HN is for human conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43335338

👤 vunderba
Why not just go full-on dystopia and make a slackernews.com site that is an exact mirror of the submissions from HN api, and then populate them with entirely chatbot generated comment sections?
👤 MilnerRoute
In addition to everything else, this is bad for all web publishers.

No matter whose link is being shared on Hacker News... This would siphon away some traffic -- all the people who now just read the AI summary, without clicking through to the article.