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Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

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post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could be a swede who meant "GDP" (BNP = BruttoNationalProdukten = Gross Domestic Product)

More plausible than "British National Party". Does it raise GDP, though? I would have thought a more accurate thing to say is it raises the global temperature.

>More plausible than "British National Party".

Maybe they were using Grok :-)

Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

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post #69

I bookmarked this comment a few months ago because I thought it was hilarious and increasingly accurate: It's approaching a very strange situation where people make overly wordy and bloated AI generated content and other people try to use AI to compress it back into useful pellets vaguely corresponding to the actual prompts used to generate the initial content. Which were the only bits anybody cared about in the firs…

Isn't this an advancement in communication though? People can put out a message in whatever language or style they prefer, the machine translators translate it into an overly verbose AI vomit, and readers condense it back down into the exact kind of personalized language they're wanting to consume.

No, because it's an inauthentic message. Your're speaking to your AI, like a politician who only hears about developments from his advisors. How can he know if he's getting the real truth of things?

Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

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If I could somehow really trust an AI not to have been spiked by some billionaire to manipulate me in one direction or other - I think I could enjoy using it as a sort of P.G Wodehouse Jeeves character in my life. Letting it access the web and giving me the gist, answering my questions / advising me etc.

Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

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post #123

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> Why are we going through this encoding-decoding process? I think succinctness and low-noise writing will be treasured in the age of AI. I hope so, because I hope this will lead to making it OK to skip the manual encoding process. After all, AI isn't doing anything new here - it's automating the customary need for communication to be in wordy prose paying right respects to right people. Maybe people will finally see…

perhaps, but humans are human, and building relationships require a culturally appropriate carrier wave - especially in global work

But if the message will be "decoded" by an AI, that "carrier wave" isn't from the original message anyway.

Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

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post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could be a swede who meant "GDP" (BNP = BruttoNationalProdukten = Gross Domestic Product)

More plausible than "British National Party". Does it raise GDP, though? I would have thought a more accurate thing to say is it raises the global temperature.

Two units of work have been carried out, so yes it raises GDP.

Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

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post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More plausible than "British National Party". Does it raise GDP, though? I would have thought a more accurate thing to say is it raises the global temperature.

Two units of work have been carried out, so yes it raises GDP.

GDP isn't about units of work, it's about the final product. So using two units of work instead of one to produce the same thing shouldn't affect GDP. But perhaps you are implying GDP is not correctly calculated?

Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

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I think that the posted example doesn't even work correctly, dropping most of the article's text after the first several paragraphs. Why did you post something when you didn't apparently even bother to check the results for correctness?

Oh, wait. I'm starting to understand that you fed it through a bullshit generator rather than just stripping it of the various pieces of unrelated content and providing just the original text, which might've been interesting to me.

Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

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I bookmarked this comment a few months ago because I thought it was hilarious and increasingly accurate: It's approaching a very strange situation where people make overly wordy and bloated AI generated content and other people try to use AI to compress it back into useful pellets vaguely corresponding to the actual prompts used to generate the initial content. Which were the only bits anybody cared about in the firs…

What that comment is describing is already here. A colleague sent an email that was obviously AI-generated (bloated, repetitive, low signal-to-noise ratio). I guess he's quite new to the team and it's a sign of formality, but I really don't mind if you send me just the bullet-point notes... Why are we going through this encoding-decoding process? I think succinctness and low-noise writing will be treasured in the age…

I had a professor in graduate school who gave me permission to turn in my detailed outlines for my essays rather than filling in all the rest of the words. I think we both liked that better too, and that was 15 years ago.

Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

#139

I bookmarked this comment a few months ago because I thought it was hilarious and increasingly accurate: It's approaching a very strange situation where people make overly wordy and bloated AI generated content and other people try to use AI to compress it back into useful pellets vaguely corresponding to the actual prompts used to generate the initial content. Which were the only bits anybody cared about in the firs…

It is really interesting because I have been using LLMs a lot for reading legalese documents. At least in the realm of Legal matters we already have this dynamic of "people make overly wordy and bloated LAWYER generated content and other people try to use LAWYERS to compress it back into useful pellet"

So at least for legal documents this LLM craze is a big improvement! It is much harder to out-spend other people on LAWYER stuff now.

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