I'm the author of a post that reached HN top #2 today with the spicy title "The AI Crowd is Mad."
A quick analysis that lead me to this title:
CTR is paramount to getting people to read your posts these days. Everybody linkbaits and so while I don't even want to dramatize my titles, this is just what everybody has to do to get a foothold in global competition. It isn't something I can change.
I had thought of a few titles before hand like: "AI is boiling our oceans," "AI is now in a Bubble" and finally "The AI Crowd is Mad."
I choose the later as it combines a mixture of touching people in their belief, behavior and belonging. "The crowd is mad," is a contrarian view to "the crowd is smart" and so those that train AI models implicitly assume it. It's a meaningful criticism that wants to tackle their presumptions. I'm really in doubt whether crowds are smart...
"The AI Crowd is Mad," is also a hint at the post's content in which I argue for the inflated expectations that investors have towards AI (and that it could be in a bubble).
I spent a significant time playing with titles to come up with "The AI Crowd is Mad" and I was proud of it. It is polemic to those that create AI, which is the audience I wanted to reach.
Sadly, though, and I don't know why, HN moderated the title into something very feeble that made the post drop off the front page (HN Guideline: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.").
The changed title is "LLM discourse needs more nuance," which makes me disappointed and cringe. By no means does this hit the level of offensiveness that I intended. I also wasn't able to edit the post back to its original title.
I'm writing this submission to tell y'all that I don't like this. Btw. I had to wait 5 hours now to make this second submission because I'm being rate limited.
I wanted my article's title to be spicy and people to controverse over it. I think there is value in provoking a discussion over this topic.
I understand that it now might have fared better with the more moderate title. But honestly, I doubt it (we cannot know). I feel a bit helpless because I want to have control over that title on HN.
That's all I want to say.
Edit: Btw. my rate limiting will probably not allow to reasonably participate in any ensuing discussion in this post...
A quick analysis that lead me to this title:
CTR is paramount to getting people to read your posts these days. Everybody linkbaits and so while I don't even want to dramatize my titles, this is just what everybody has to do to get a foothold in global competition. It isn't something I can change.
I had thought of a few titles before hand like: "AI is boiling our oceans," "AI is now in a Bubble" and finally "The AI Crowd is Mad."
I choose the later as it combines a mixture of touching people in their belief, behavior and belonging. "The crowd is mad," is a contrarian view to "the crowd is smart" and so those that train AI models implicitly assume it. It's a meaningful criticism that wants to tackle their presumptions. I'm really in doubt whether crowds are smart...
"The AI Crowd is Mad," is also a hint at the post's content in which I argue for the inflated expectations that investors have towards AI (and that it could be in a bubble).
I spent a significant time playing with titles to come up with "The AI Crowd is Mad" and I was proud of it. It is polemic to those that create AI, which is the audience I wanted to reach.
Sadly, though, and I don't know why, HN moderated the title into something very feeble that made the post drop off the front page (HN Guideline: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.").
The changed title is "LLM discourse needs more nuance," which makes me disappointed and cringe. By no means does this hit the level of offensiveness that I intended. I also wasn't able to edit the post back to its original title.
I'm writing this submission to tell y'all that I don't like this. Btw. I had to wait 5 hours now to make this second submission because I'm being rate limited.
I wanted my article's title to be spicy and people to controverse over it. I think there is value in provoking a discussion over this topic.
I understand that it now might have fared better with the more moderate title. But honestly, I doubt it (we cannot know). I feel a bit helpless because I want to have control over that title on HN.
That's all I want to say.
Edit: Btw. my rate limiting will probably not allow to reasonably participate in any ensuing discussion in this post...