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AI-generated content
Raised as a usability problem by 18 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 18 threads.
People raised many different problems with AI-generated content, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 17 complaints
- Recipe is hidden far down the mobile page, so users must scroll a long way to find it2026-10-08
- AI-written commit messages are too massive to skim in git blame2026-09-30
- Visual clutter hides the event's what, when, and where within seconds2026-09-19
- Generated wording forces extra effort to translate it back into plain language2026-08-24
- Some designs show only title and graphic on phones, forcing users to scroll to find content2026-08-13
- Clicking a toggle repaints the UI, so the user must hunt to re-click it2026-07-31
- Verbose text buries the one important point, making messages hard to follow2026-07-25
- AI-produced sites use tiny fonts and low-contrast gray text2026-07-13
- Instructions point to links and buttons the user cannot find in the UI2026-05-27
- Huge AI-generated scripts are hard to read, navigate and restructure; GitLab lags on them2026-05-15
- Request is buried in a multipage document, impossible to tell what is actually being asked2026-04-30
- Text is hard to read and images distract, so the article is confusing to follow2025-10-05
- AI-written docs are bloated with fluff, making them hard for humans to follow2025-09-20
- Multiline subtitle phrases split awkwardly, making them extremely hard to read2025-01-09
- AI text converted from tabular data is hard to scan and compare2024-08-01
- Stylized QR codes don't clearly look like QR codes, so people may not know to scan them2023-06-12
- Generated voice is incredibly hard to understand, especially with music on top2010-06-18