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LLM-generated content
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with LLM-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 8 complaints
- AI-generated website frontends look right but have terrible usability and performance2026-10-19
- AI-written prose is confusing and hard to read, with meaningless phrasing2026-08-03
- Page is packed with numbers, graphs and charts, making it incomprehensible to read2026-05-22
- Text in dark mode has too little contrast against the background to read2026-04-22
- AI-generated log overview took two hours to understand2026-04-14
- Content fades in as you scroll, making the page annoying enough to leave2026-04-06
- LLM-built pages add animated gifs that make sites slower and harder to use2025-08-10
- Reader struggles to follow a long document padded with confusing fluff2025-08-05