1. The genuinely naive. This is new technology and the social expectations haven’t been figured out yet. Some people still think this is helpful / useful.
2. People who don’t care as long as they generate traffic to their site. AI-written articles are the new zero-effort promotion and SEO strategy.
With AI being non-deterministic, this wouldn’t be very useful. Everyone in the comments would be trying to talk, all having read a different article, with sometimes wildly different content.
Posting a prompt also seems like the laziest way to post. Someone thought of an idea or a question, and instead of interrogating that idea, answering that question, or even trying to form an option… they ship the prompt off to the community and expect other people to run the prompt for them and nerd snipe them into doing all that mental work that they couldn’t be bothered with.
It’s not much different than telling people they should Google “Roman aqueducts” and talk about it.
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