Even comment-writing is to a large extent an original seeing task, when all the relevant context would otherwise seem to be more straightforward to assemble than when writing the post itself unprompted. A good comment to a post is not a review of the whole post. It finds some point in it, looks at it in a particular way, and finds that there is a relevant observation to be made about it.
Crucially, a comment won’t be made at all if such a relevant observation wasn’t found, or else you get slop even when the commenter is human (“Great post!”). Chatbots did already achieve parity with a significant fraction of reddit-level comments (but not posts) I think, which are also not worth reading.
Even comment-writing is to a large extent an original seeing task, when all the relevant context would otherwise seem to be more straightforward to assemble than when writing the post itself unprompted. A good comment to a post is not a review of the whole post. It finds some point in it, looks at it in a particular way, and finds that there is a relevant observation to be made about it.
Crucially, a comment won’t be made at all if such a relevant observation wasn’t found, or else you get slop even when the commenter is human (“Great post!”). Chatbots did already achieve parity with a significant fraction of reddit-level comments (but not posts) I think, which are also not worth reading.