{"slug": "calling-everything-ai-generated-is-lazy", "title": "Calling everything AI-generated is lazy", "summary": "A blogger criticizes the reflexive accusation of 'AI-generated' on platforms like Hacker News, arguing it harms genuine writers, especially non-native speakers who use AI tools for proofreading. The author contends such comments are lazy criticism that discourages personal publishing and fails to distinguish between AI-assisted writing and synthetic content.", "body_md": "The new lazy comment’s “AI-generated”.\n\nOn Hacker News, every thread about a programming language that isn’t Rust eventually gets a Rust comment. It doesn’t matter if the topic’s C, Zig, Go, PHP, Elixir, or a database. Somebody will find a way to turn the discussion into Rust.\n\nWe now have the same reflex for writing.\n\nSomeone publishes a blog post. Maybe something a shower thought. Maybe just a weird thing they spent the weekend trying to understand.\n\nInstead of pointing to a wrong number, a missing test, a wrong claim, or saying thank you, somebody just writes “sounds AI-generated”.\n\nThat isn’t criticism. It gives the author nothing to fix. No sentence. No claim. No result. Just a little accusation dropped in the middle of the room. Just sending bad vibes for no reason.\n\nAnd it lands on real people.\n\nA lot of personal blogs aren’t content businesses. They’re notes written after work, or on a weekend, or at 4am, while the author’s still excited or annoyed enough to explain what they just found. The research may’ve taken days. The writing may’ve taken hours. The reward’s usually nothing. Maybe one useful comment. Maybe one email years later. Maybe just knowing that the next person won’t lose the same afternoon.\n\nCalling that “AI-generated” isn’t harmless.\n\nThe garbage sites that actually publish AI slop don’t care. There’s nobody behind them feeling insulted. The pipeline doesn’t read Hacker News. It doesn’t get discouraged. It doesn’t wonder whether publishing was a mistake. It scrapes, generates, publishes, and repeats.\n\nThe person writing a blog does read it.\n\nI’m French. English isn’t my native language.\n\nWhen I write, I don’t first think “how would a native speaker phrase this?” I think about the thing I just did or the idea I want to get out before the excitement’s gone.\n\nAnd I use a computer, so yes, I use tools.\n\nI utterly hate AI-generated content. I don’t want machines to replace personal writing with synthetic filler.\n\nBut AI as an assistant is different.\n\nChecking. Verifying. Proofreading. Helping me say in English what I already know I want to say. *That* is useful.\n\nI use Apple Intelligence proofreading on my Mac all the time. I ask ChatGPT to fix my English. It fixes grammar. It removes very French sentence structures. It rewrites everything into something that looks a bit too clean. Do you really think I can’t see it too?\n\nAI-assisted prose has patterns. Any idiot can recognizing its stinky smell.\n\nBut a spell checker doesn’t make a post fake. Grammarly didn’t make old posts fake. A machine helping a non-native speaker write more readable English doesn’t make the work fake.\n\nThe work’s the part before the sentence.\n\nDid I write from actual experience? Did I put my name on the result and accept being wrong in public? This is what should matter.\n\nThat’s also why the drive-by accusation is so annoying.\n\nReal AI slop exists. It’s everywhere and it’s awful. But as a filter, “this sounds like AI” is just fkcing annoying.\n\nMostly, it detects fluency. That’s exactly what non-native writers use tools for. It punishes people for making their English easier to read. It pushes them toward a stupid choice: write worse and sound human, or write better and become suspicious.\n\nThat sucks.\n\nIf a post’s wrong, say what’s wrong. If a chart’s bogus, show the bug. If a claim’s too strong, argue with the claim. If a paragraph’s clearly hallucinated, quote it.\n\nBut a drive-by “AI-generated” comment’s just a status signal. It says “I noticed the current thing.” It doesn’t improve the discussion. It doesn’t protect anyone. It doesn’t help the author. It only makes publishing feel worse.\n\nAnd publishing personal writing already has a cost.\n\nYou expose how you think. You expose what you don’t know. If you write in a second language, you also expose every awkward sentence. There’s always the small fear that the post’s too rough, too direct, too French, too wrong.\n\nProofreading tools reduce that friction. They let me share the technical part instead of spending all my energy fighting articles and prepositions.\n\nIf that makes some sentences look assisted, so be it.\n\nI care more about whether the content’s useful than whether every comma proves I typed it manually.\n\nThe annoying part’s that people keep saying they want the human web back. They want personal blogs, independent notes, small discoveries, weird experiments, people writing outside platforms.\n\nThen the same people make it unpleasant to publish any of that.\n\nHaters are gonna hate. Fine.\n\nBut this particular kind of hate costs something. The AI farms survive the comments. Humans may not.\n\nSo no, I won’t apologize for using proofreading tools.\n\nIf you want to fight AI slop, fight empty work. Fight fake expertise. Fight articles with no author, no experience, no accountability, and no point.\n\nDon’t make humans prove they’re human every time they write a decent sentence.\n\nThat’s how you get fewer humans writing.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/calling-everything-ai-generated-is-lazy", "canonical_source": "https://00f.net/2026/06/25/stop-calling-everything-ai-generated/", "published_at": "2026-06-25 01:22:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-25 01:44:00.292669+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-tools", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Hacker News", "Apple Intelligence", "ChatGPT", "Grammarly"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/calling-everything-ai-generated-is-lazy", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/calling-everything-ai-generated-is-lazy.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/calling-everything-ai-generated-is-lazy.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/calling-everything-ai-generated-is-lazy.jsonld"}}