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Re: Show HN: NotYetNews – AI-Generated News from the Future

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If you're not interested in random and creative acts of programming, I think you're on the wrong discussion site.

This is for fun. It takes todays headlines and rewrites them. Like I could tell that the "The Mars State Fair Sees Many Galactic Party Candidates but Only One Zorgon" was a rewrite of "The Iowa State Fair Sees Many Republican Party Candidates but Only One Trump".

It retells the present in a future context. I enjoyed it.

Re: Show HN: NotYetNews – AI-Generated News from the Future

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The silver lining is that flooding the internet with AI spam is self-defeating since it will taint the training data for future models.

Instead of learning to immitate humans they'll begin to imitation the imitations, then imitate the imitations of the imitations.

Re: Show HN: NotYetNews – AI-Generated News from the Future

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I agree. The more attention we give AI, the more it will be profitable for sites to use it to gain advertising revenue, and the more money will be given to it's development. That is why I have adopted the policy to NEVER click on any video or link that celebrates the use of AI, or uses AI to get more clicks. Of course, websites or blogs that harshly criticize AI are good.

> The more attention we give AI, the more it will be profitable for sites to use it to gain advertising revenue, and the more money will be given to it's development.

Pretty obvious slippery slope fallacy.

Re: Show HN: NotYetNews – AI-Generated News from the Future

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The silver lining is that flooding the internet with AI spam is self-defeating since it will taint the training data for future models. Instead of learning to immitate humans they'll begin to imitation the imitations, then imitate the imitations of the imitations.

Not like we haven't filled it already with misinformation and blog farm drivel. We need to judge both human and AI content by its utility.

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Honestly, I struggle with this. I've made some 'AI' generated content, Multi-player text based rpgs with persistent generated content, stories, news articles, etc. I never released any of it- not because it isn't entertaining content, but because it feels shallow. It's almost like the idea of uncanny valley, but I'd describe it more as a hollow facsimile. I want to like it. I keep trying to like it, but I am not there yet.

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I agree. The more attention we give AI, the more it will be profitable for sites to use it to gain advertising revenue, and the more money will be given to it's development. That is why I have adopted the policy to NEVER click on any video or link that celebrates the use of AI, or uses AI to get more clicks. Of course, websites or blogs that harshly criticize AI are good.

Your conscientious abstaining doesn't fix anything in the big picture

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The silver lining is that flooding the internet with AI spam is self-defeating since it will taint the training data for future models. Instead of learning to immitate humans they'll begin to imitation the imitations, then imitate the imitations of the imitations.

Everything in archives pre-2021 is still untainted. All major social media, Q&A, code repos, and archive.org are timestamped. It taints future collection of training data, but not existing collection of training data.

Re: Show HN: NotYetNews – AI-Generated News from the Future

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I agree. The more attention we give AI, the more it will be profitable for sites to use it to gain advertising revenue, and the more money will be given to it's development. That is why I have adopted the policy to NEVER click on any video or link that celebrates the use of AI, or uses AI to get more clicks. Of course, websites or blogs that harshly criticize AI are good.

Your conscientious abstaining doesn't fix anything in the big picture

Well maybe not, but I am slowly growing a group of people that are interested in avoiding technology, and maybe soon we can form a coalition, one which would promise to avoid using AI. Not sure it will work but maybe it could. And there is already some backlash against AI so it's not as hard as you think!

Re: Show HN: NotYetNews – AI-Generated News from the Future

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Nice to see a fun, creative project like this. The LLM tie-in makes sense because it keeps headlines fresh & relevant to today's news. Thanks for sharing!

If anyone else wants a peek behind the curtain, here is the GPT-4 call: https://github.com/johnpolacek/notyetnews/blob/main/cron/ope...

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