About whether AI will replace human-made content after an AI reporter was fired.
Has this happened?
Yes 48 (35%)Not sure 24 (17%)No 66 (48%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI will replace human-made content after an AI reporter was fired.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Sorry but I don’t think this is much evidence of anything. The point at which an AI can imitate a live-streaming human being is decades away. By then, we will almost certainly have developed a “real Human ID” system that verifies one’s humanity. I wrote about this more here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42154928
The idea that AI is just going to eat all human creative activity because technology accelerates quickly is not a real argument, nor does it stand up to any serious projections of the future.