There I was, just looking through my past diaries because I wanted to find yearly info on comment numbers for a reply to Angela, reading slowly down the list of my past diaries, and I started noticing that the diary descriptions didn’t sound like anything I’d ever written, and they all sounded, structurally, much the same

After about 15 of them, I realized that none of them were ever what I’d written, and started checking stories to look at the first paragraph, which is what’s been standard on DK for years as far as what goes up as a blurb.

Considering what the new policy on AI content is:

content posted to Daily Kos must be meaningfully authored by the user and not generated solely and uncritically by AI. AI systems are prone to a range of well-documented issues, including factual errors, fabricated information, bias, and unreliable sourcing. Any use of AI to assist in drafting content requires careful human review and independent verification of all factual claims before publication.

it does not seem reasonable that these descriptions should need to be substituted for the first few lines of a diary.

How do I know they’re AI? Um – there are not enough people in the transition process to add non-author descriptions to a tenth of the diaries that have been moved to this venue, but there they are, all in a similar style (that of an overworked librarian, frankly).

Typical headline and WP description from diary listing:

My original first paragraph:

To be fair, diaries published since the move appear to work with the old standards, but If I were using the descriptions to pick a migrated diary, I doubt I would bother to read any of them.

And this wouldn’t be complete without what might be the funniest diary description ever – from Aug 3, 2006:

I’d like to respectfully request that, over time, these descriptions be replaced with the first lines of the original diaries.

*End Rant*

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