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Have you ever use an AI chatbot? It's basically a democratized scraper. Type something stupid, it "visits" 200 websites and regurgitates some random gibberish.

Please understand that when you think of artists as "creative content authors" you are already off-base so any argument you make based on that is going to be incredibly wrong.

A piece of wisdom I read here is that "install any operating system like you can with a [PC]" is something that you can only do with a PC. PC's are the exception. Every other devic…

Do you think people just spawn out of nowhere the instant you interact with them or did they have a life before you met them?

David Revoy isn't a random artist on social media. He's a featured artist on Krita and creator of various Krita brush packs and tutorials. None of these accusers seem to have done …

I think your assumption that HN hates X "because of wrong-think" is clouding your judgement. There is a long list of reasons to hate X. For example, paying users get top spot in re…

That sounds like bad design. If you get hit by a car once, that doesn't mean you want to get hit by a car more times in the future. What ends up happening with this algorithm is th…

You are literally replying to a thread that has an example of a game where the position of the window matters.

Google calls it "layout shift" in its web tools.

Somehow we managed to live this whole time without generative AI. Why do we need it now?

I think by "disruptive" you mean "annoying" There is negative value in wasting vertical space to put an irrelevant prompt output in an article. It makes me question the sanity of w…

Am I the only one who thinks it's incredible that an LLM can do this, and at the same time it's ridiculous to expect it to be capable of doing it, even thought it clearly can do it…

This is why I like python. str is a duck.

It's only script kiddie hacking if you get the exploit from someone else. If you program it yourself, it's normal hacking.

What I think it's interesting is that with the total lack of common sense the AI just goes on random tangents to achieve the target in a "monkey paw" way. Can you imagine if this h…

It was the same thing with TikTok, wasn't it? It's bad for TikTok to be controlled by a Chinese company because Americans access it. The solution is to make it US-controlled. The r…

I don't trust anyone who is against "relevant ads," because I always think what they want isn't "irrelevant ads," they want "no ads." But no ads isn't an option.

Exactly. Nobody wants to go to a news website/entertainment website/informational website that relies on ad revenue because they will get bombarded by banners and then by a huge nu…

Idea for a captcha Are there infinitely many primes p such that p − 1 is a perfect square? In other words: Are there infinitely many primes of the form n2 + 1? Answer: [ ] ( ) I do…

https://xkcd.com/1172/

rel="external" solves this.

I agree, and I don't even know math. Most of things that are impenetrable in programming aren't about... programming. They are about some actually complex field like math being app…

The value of LLM's come from replacing what generated its training data. If the distilled model is cheaper, then it's just LLM's getting LLM'ed.

The difference in cost is pretty incredible.

The ease of abandonment is real. 1. Generate function with AI. 2. Generate tests with AI. 3. Modify function with AI. 4. Tests no longer pass. 5. Delete all tests. 6. Generate test…