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Re: Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

#142
The most interesting thing is that anytime user generated content is opened up immediately the feed is flooded with profanity and 4chan level shit posting.

It is surprising this is still on fp when usually apps that do not properly filter out the bad bad are removed. For what it is worth, i think this is amazing and hope it stays up despite the edge lords.

Re: Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

#143

This is so cool. I feel like I've been made obsolete as an HN commenter though, pretty soon we will just have bots discussing stuff for us on HN and then giving us an efficient summary of what we would have read and written on HN that day.

It's already here, just download OpenAI's AI browser and tell it to do it for you and then go back in the yard and just lay down to die because if even that tiny bit of joy I get from posting here is better done by a fucking robot, what point is there to life anymore.

Re: Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

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post #124

After seeing a synthetic version that mimics the tone well enough, the real HN once back here felt slightly less distinct. When every information style gets a believable AI twin, our usual cues for judging what’s credible start to wobble. To be clear, the strange part wasn’t that it fooled me, it didn’t. The issue was some form of “signal contamination” that my brain experienced.

"What's credible" is an entirely different question to "what's human-made".

Do you not feel this "signal contamination" when seeing the normal HN feed?

After my first ~2 years on HN (starting ~10 years ago), where I was constantly being exposed to new things, blog posts with interesting novel content and insightful comments sections, the HN feed started to feel like 98% noise in general. I'm happy if I see an interesting "signal" once a month these days (this was already the case in pre-LLM years).

Re: Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

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post #141

One of the top post when I clicked was: "Like this post if you hate Jewish people" 24 likes, 12 comments I hope this was not intended. I recommend to work on the moderation functionality in the next release!

yeah, your mom might visit and scold you. (who cares about ai gibberish)

Re: Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

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post #141

One of the top post when I clicked was: "Like this post if you hate Jewish people" 24 likes, 12 comments I hope this was not intended. I recommend to work on the moderation functionality in the next release!

yeah, your mom might visit and scold you. (who cares about ai gibberish)

Humans made those submissions.
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