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

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Check out my recent full-GPT-4 generated HN parody as well: https://crackernews.github.io (featuring coherent comment threads!) P.S. the prompts and the code I used can be found here: https://github.com/crackernews/crackernews.github.io/blob/gh...

This is great! Pretty similar to what I did in that you have actual links to the articles and even images. If you had a cron script that auto-generated new content every day, I think that would be the only thing that I'm doing that crackernews doesn't yet. Another interesting choice is you are generating the article content itself. It is wild how you can get it to generate markup on the fly for different styles of po…

> If you had a cron script that auto-generated new content every day

Thank you for the feedback! I thought about that initially, but turned out that generated jokes become a bit repetitive after a while and the project actually requires manual curation (for which I don't have the time). Or, it needs some source of "external entropy" which I haven't figured yet.

What is also interesting is the exact ways in which LLM humor becomes repetitive. I believe it could be a subject of study on its own, as it reveals something interesting about how human humor is structured.

P.S. For example, for some reason LLM really love all kinds of jokes about pirates, pizza, cheese and lost socks.

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

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post #32

Check out my recent full-GPT-4 generated HN parody as well: https://crackernews.github.io (featuring coherent comment threads!) P.S. the prompts and the code I used can be found here: https://github.com/crackernews/crackernews.github.io/blob/gh...

Found this in the thread about GPT-10...

kernelKommando 4 minutes ago | parent | next [–]

What if we're all just GPT-generated comments in a GPT-generated world, and this is our existence now? reply

existentialDev 4 minutes ago | parent | next [–]

Well, that's my existential crisis for the day. Thanks a lot, kernelKommando. reply

Now this is "me"...What if we are all just existences spawned by GPT-1000 for the fleeting amusement of some beings...

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

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post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great! Pretty similar to what I did in that you have actual links to the articles and even images. If you had a cron script that auto-generated new content every day, I think that would be the only thing that I'm doing that crackernews doesn't yet. Another interesting choice is you are generating the article content itself. It is wild how you can get it to generate markup on the fly for different styles of po…

> If you had a cron script that auto-generated new content every day Thank you for the feedback! I thought about that initially, but turned out that generated jokes become a bit repetitive after a while and the project actually requires manual curation (for which I don't have the time). Or, it needs some source of "external entropy" which I haven't figured yet. What is also interesting is the exact ways in which LLM…

Yeah I found the same regarding repetition. I avoided that by seeding it with new data from NYTimes API each day.

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

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post #32

Check out my recent full-GPT-4 generated HN parody as well: https://crackernews.github.io (featuring coherent comment threads!) P.S. the prompts and the code I used can be found here: https://github.com/crackernews/crackernews.github.io/blob/gh...

Found this in the thread about GPT-10... kernelKommando 4 minutes ago | parent | next [–] What if we're all just GPT-generated comments in a GPT-generated world, and this is our existence now? reply existentialDev 4 minutes ago | parent | next [–] Well, that's my existential crisis for the day. Thanks a lot, kernelKommando. reply Now this is "me"...What if we are all just existences spawned by GPT-1000 for the fleeti…

It easily could be. And according to the simulation hypothesis (by Nick Bostrom), it is the most probable thing actually.

P.S. There is also a hilarious Rick and Morty episode about a car battery universe: https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Microverse_Battery

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

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post #32

Check out my recent full-GPT-4 generated HN parody as well: https://crackernews.github.io (featuring coherent comment threads!) P.S. the prompts and the code I used can be found here: https://github.com/crackernews/crackernews.github.io/blob/gh...

Found this in the thread about GPT-10... kernelKommando 4 minutes ago | parent | next [–] What if we're all just GPT-generated comments in a GPT-generated world, and this is our existence now? reply existentialDev 4 minutes ago | parent | next [–] Well, that's my existential crisis for the day. Thanks a lot, kernelKommando. reply Now this is "me"...What if we are all just existences spawned by GPT-1000 for the fleeti…

And yeah... it is interesting that GPT-generated agents sometimes "realize" that they could be indeed GPT-generated.

I once saw a strange dream where my "character" realized that he was only a product of my imagination — the very moment before I woke up. It was not me, but him, who had that stunning realization. And once it happened, there was no him.

So I sometimes wonder if that is how the death looks like — you just suddenly realize that "you" was only a subprocess temporarily spawned to existence within some kind of powerful virtual machine, be it a GPT-1000 or whatever.

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

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I think the year 2122 will be closer to Dune than any of these more optimistic articles. Or maybe Fahrenheit 451 if we don’t totally screw up the environment, with a dose of Harrison Bergeron.

In 2122 most western countries will look like slums in Brazil and South Africa, mixed with disproportionate wealth in a few places. Add a sprinkle of minority report, since (state) mass surveillance tech will be cheap and ubiquitous. People will still eat, fuck and shit. Coca cola and major brands will still exist in some way or another. The environment will remain the same.
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