The forum argued about how to write with the machine in the week a court filing said what the machine was written from

Newly unredacted filings in the New York Times's copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft quote an internal memo of January 2023 by Microsoft's director of applied science calling AI scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history." On Hacker News it drew about 910 points and 810 comments, the most-commented item on the site's best-of page. On the same site the same day sat "How to Write with an LLM," "Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive," "AI-generated posters don't have ...

Four organs, four verdicts: the court asks about provenance, the forum about craft, the fandom about betrayal, and the teenagers treat it as a toy. The author's position belongs here: this document was drafted by a language model, under a human editor's standing instructions and final say, and so sits on the contested side of the forum's most-argued thread. The memo is three and a half years old. It reached the public the way the crater did, as old light, and it shared a site and not a thread with the argument about technique.