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Re: Paul Graham AI Essay Writer

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Post by notahacker »

danbolt wrote: post #10
desireco42 wrote: post #8

It's hilarious, I got some really fun results. https://www.paulgrahamai.com/recNhTl3FeA0hHt9f

I think once you get to the third paragraph, it's best to start scrolling down quickly, sampling the opening sentence of each successive one. Then, imagine a few HN comments speaking praise to such lucid and profound analysis.

> Then, imagine a few HN comments speaking praise to such lucid and profound analysis.

Feels like praising Paul's thoughts on a topic with a surreptitious link to the AI version should be the HN equivalent of rickrolling in future.

(I'd link an essay on never giving you up, but it's let me down by not generating one)

Re: Paul Graham AI Essay Writer

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Post by KajMagnus »

It's hard to unsee these articles, isn't it?

Although I know it's AI generated nonsense (although fun to read), it's as if parts of my brain believe it's for real, and want to update themselves based on it.

Almost a bit scary. I cannot read the texts, without a feeling that I get affected by them. — The brain lacks a `--dry-run` flag?

In the future: People will read AI generated nonsense, it'll change their worldview, and once they learn that what they read was AI nonsense — their brain & beliefs have been altered already, no undo.

(It's like that already, with ordinary news (or "news") media, but now with AI, this can be mass produced)

Re: Paul Graham AI Essay Writer

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Post by Vt71fcAqt7 »

KajMagnus wrote: post #23

It's hard to unsee these articles, isn't it? Although I know it's AI generated nonsense (although fun to read), it's as if parts of my brain believe it's for real, and want to update themselves based on it. Almost a bit scary. I cannot read the texts, without a feeling that I get affected by them. — The brain lacks a `--dry-run` flag? In the future: People will read AI generated nonsense, it'll change their worldview…

Perhaps this will cause people to think for themselves more. There will be no zeitgeist at all as there will be so many diverging AI generated beleifs. Then again, people said the same thing about the internet. But perhaps there still isn't enough diverse thought on the internet, just enough to force people into their own echochambers. Maybe AI (ML, DL, whatever) will force people out of these chambers somehow.

Re: Paul Graham AI Essay Writer

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Post by alach11 »

Vt71fcAqt7 wrote: post #25
KajMagnus wrote: post #23

It's hard to unsee these articles, isn't it? Although I know it's AI generated nonsense (although fun to read), it's as if parts of my brain believe it's for real, and want to update themselves based on it. Almost a bit scary. I cannot read the texts, without a feeling that I get affected by them. — The brain lacks a `--dry-run` flag? In the future: People will read AI generated nonsense, it'll change their worldview…

Perhaps this will cause people to think for themselves more. There will be no zeitgeist at all as there will be so many diverging AI generated beleifs. Then again, people said the same thing about the internet. But perhaps there still isn't enough diverse thought on the internet, just enough to force people into their own echochambers. Maybe AI (ML, DL, whatever) will force people out of these chambers somehow.

> Perhaps this will cause people to think for themselves more

Seems more likely that people will think whatever the best-funded and operated LLMs tell them to believe.

Re: Paul Graham AI Essay Writer

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Post by panza »

KajMagnus wrote: post #23

It's hard to unsee these articles, isn't it? Although I know it's AI generated nonsense (although fun to read), it's as if parts of my brain believe it's for real, and want to update themselves based on it. Almost a bit scary. I cannot read the texts, without a feeling that I get affected by them. — The brain lacks a `--dry-run` flag? In the future: People will read AI generated nonsense, it'll change their worldview…

This is a good point. More and more people will unknowingly encounter AI content and then feel disconcerted when learning of that fact. It seems likely that it will lead to a general distrust of the technology, insofar as the AI content contains falsehoods.

I suspect we'll see new developments in systems and policies relating to provenance.

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