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No one who wants to read, and no one worth reading, is going to go to a site that so clearly doesn't value human expression.

AI-generated prose isn't an obstacle to lots of people, but it absolutely is to the demographic you want to attract.



Hi. I understand your point, but I think there is another side to this. Waldi started within the Persian community. a community where blogging had largely been abandoned in favor of social media since 2016. People really resonated with the serendipity built into the project. Because of that, I believe Waldi can become a home for other communities, too. They might be people whose language I don't speak, but I can still discover them and get to know them through Waldi's randomness.

In this case, AI is just a tool to help translate the original project into English. I do plan on rewriting the GitHub README myself soon. However, I don't think AI is something we must entirely avoid if it ultimately helps people discover and connect with others they might never have reached before.


> AI is just a tool to help translate the original project into English.

1. It seems unlikely that you wrote the original filled with LLM-speak, so this isn't a faithful translation; your tool to help translate has added a lot that will negatively affect the translation's impact

2. Your target readership does not want to communicate with generated text; it's going to give you the exact opposite of connection because they'll respond negatively to it


You're right. I've rewritten the README and the site text.




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