Why are articles with a negative view of Gen AI/OpenAI getting flagged?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37610591 is one example? No idea, I see nothing worth flagging in the story or comments, I clicked 'vouch' now.

I would flag something like that because its just activism. It doesn't stimulate my curiosity. It's just flamebait with old arguments.

Then once you add

> There is one area where I have extensively benefitted from the use of AI in content creation, and this is in authoring closed captions and transcripts for recordings of my past streams using Descript. I vetted and cleaned up these AI-generated captions and transcripts afterwards to ensure their accuracy.

won't someone speak up for all the uhhh caption transcriptionists? so ai art, bad. ai captions, good.

Tons of articles get flagged every day. I remember a bot on FB regularly sampling popular articles. Some of the most popular ones on FB end up leading to flagged articles.

But back then, many flagged articles were around COVID. Some were sensational, some were not, but if it triggers strong discomfort, it gets flagged.

There was a quality article on advice by a female founder that was highly flagged too. Likely because it sounded sensationalist. Sometimes the system fails.

Most social media rewards unpopular opinions and hot takes, but HN is the opposite, the algorithm buries those.