Who unironically writes "thought leader" as their job description?
If I made my job title "Thought Follower" I wonder how many people would know it's a joke.
People? It’s an increasingly wrote-only medium where the writing is automated.
Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
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Re: Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
#42The real question is: why do you follow 800 people that post content like this?
In the crypto bubble I used the opportunity to remove all that noise from my stream. Unsubbed from everyone with Crypto in their job title with no regrets. Doing the same for AI thought leaders helped reduce the noise a bit further.
I like to keep my LinkedIn stream non AI generated, so if I see an AI generated post with all those shitty unicode bold letters, I'm just unfollowing and removing them from my connections.
Now I get the real value out of LinkedIn, which is spammers and advertisers that have a LinkedIn Pro subscription that I cannot unsubscribe from. Yay! /s
Jokes aside, you should reflect on how and for what you are using social media. Every second you spend reading there is likely a second wasted that you can spend building or doing what you enjoy. Social media is an attention grabbing business model, and your lifetime is too precious to waste it on...that.
Every time I was opening social media in the past I am now doing a little bit of sports outside to reset my brain. Much more fun to be in the green than in the digital noise world.
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#43I think we have roughly the same rate of people following the hype as in the past, but their spamming capabilities is like 10x because of AI. I believe it'll adjust by itself, but for now let's brace through it together
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#45Maybe it's the mediocre people who are most excited about AI because they see it as equalizing them with more interesting and original people.
What worries me is how it will be harder to differentiate the two now. I don’t want to work with people who just completely delegate their thinking to LLMs all day, but how do you effectively filter them out as an interviewer/interviewee?
I recently hired for a tech position on my team. I ended up hiring an amazing internal applicant. I consider myself lucky. The hiring process has gotten awful on both sides in recent years.
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#46This is happening with many popular YouTube creators as well, pivoting from tech tutorials to AI. Kyle Cook made a video showing how engagement has cratered for non-AI stuff, making AI content extremely lucrative [1].
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#47Today it’s AI thought leader, yesterday it was crypto hacker, before then it was big data engineer, and so on. It’s marketing. It works, otherwise people wouldn’t be doing it. Bullshitters will bullshit, especially in a business so bullshit-driven as tech. If you don’t buy it, then you are not their target.
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#481. Because people who post on LinkedIn ARE insufferable
2. Their content is AI generated which is also insufferable.
Basically the internet has gone full circle. It started out pretty shit, got useful for a short time, and is now back to being pretty shit. I don’t use it for much more than emails and banking and occasionally doom scrolling which is becoming less because I find AI generated content so off putting.
I don’t even use generic Google for study purposes any more because so much on there is just AI generated bullshit.
Re: Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
#49because it's all AI generated content. Unfortunately, no truth or human interest in reading it except what AI feels like with a gem of keyword manipulation of a million characters
Re: Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
#50Tbh I think it’s propaganda. A lot of very powerful people are invested in AI adoption.