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crabmuskettoday at 11:10 AM3 repliesview on HN

The generalised form of this, which we are rapidly discovering, is that AI breaks the social contract that used to exist between an author and a reader (of prose, code, anything).


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spacechild1today at 12:06 PM

That's the most succinct way I have seen someone put it, thanks! It's really the same issue, no matter if it's software, online comments, e-mails, artworks, homework, etc. We engage because we expect to be interacting with the output of another human being. AI fundamentally betrays this expectation.

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Lerctoday at 7:04 PM

I think any such contract would have died with the first propaganda, or deliberate framing to advance an agenda.

I think assuming a writer had your best intentions in mind has been unwise for quite some time. Murdoch built an empire exploiting this assumption.

ncrucestoday at 5:53 PM

Precisely. In the case of OSS it makes no sense for maintainers to spend more time reviewing AI generated code than contributors spent prompt engineering it. That's just not helpful.