What's this about?
An essay naming a feeling many people recognised: the author's brain now detects AI-generated text and immediately disengages, treating it as containing no information. It drew 507 comments, most of them agreeing.
What exactly is "AI-blindness"?
Not an inability to read the text, but an automatic refusal to process it. The essay's sharpest observation is that reading AI prose feels like doing creative work to impart meaning to words that carry little — you are supplying the sense, and it is exhausting.
What's the community saying?
HN 508 points, 507 comments
- The top comment, with 41 replies, describes exactly that short-circuit to "there is no information here" and the exhaustion of overriding it.
- A sharp qualification: perhaps people who work in tech all day are good at detecting AI text while the general population is not, which would reconcile the essay with research claiming humans cannot tell.
- The most interesting distinct observation — AI-generated content is not so much bad as unmemorable, with one commenter unable to recall a single AI image clearly despite seeing many.
- Several report the workplace version: being unable to get through two sentences of a colleague's AI-generated document.
- A tangent on the essay's images, which readers found unsettling in a specific body-horror way.