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It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN

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Re: It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN

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I know it's controversial during this incredible AI hype cycle on this site, but as a AI skeptic and increasingly neo-Luddite, I've reduced the amount I spend on this site by 90% since the start of the year. If only I could add my userscript on my iOS Firefox to just hide any post containing the words "GPT", "AI" or "LLM", but alas, I guess I will have to be productive instead of slacking off reading HN. I honestly m…

You can ask ChatGPT to write you a script that hides those posts for you ;)

Re: It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN

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I know it's controversial during this incredible AI hype cycle on this site, but as a AI skeptic and increasingly neo-Luddite, I've reduced the amount I spend on this site by 90% since the start of the year. If only I could add my userscript on my iOS Firefox to just hide any post containing the words "GPT", "AI" or "LLM", but alas, I guess I will have to be productive instead of slacking off reading HN. I honestly m…

I'm reading that as "no browsers on iOS support sufficiently powerful extensions to filter out individual HN posts by word".

Have you checked out any of the HN apps for iOS instead of reading with a browser? I'd expect some of them to include a keyword filtering feature.

Re: It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN

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I know it's controversial during this incredible AI hype cycle on this site, but as a AI skeptic and increasingly neo-Luddite, I've reduced the amount I spend on this site by 90% since the start of the year. If only I could add my userscript on my iOS Firefox to just hide any post containing the words "GPT", "AI" or "LLM", but alas, I guess I will have to be productive instead of slacking off reading HN. I honestly m…

I see 3 kind of people, all common on HN:

- The luddites: it's just hype.

- The doomers: AI will kill us all.

- The AI indie hackers: dunno about AI, I'm trying to make money with it.

Somehow the intersection is right: AI is not really smart, but it will replace a lot of human activity anyhow.

Re: It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN

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I know it's controversial during this incredible AI hype cycle on this site, but as a AI skeptic and increasingly neo-Luddite, I've reduced the amount I spend on this site by 90% since the start of the year. If only I could add my userscript on my iOS Firefox to just hide any post containing the words "GPT", "AI" or "LLM", but alas, I guess I will have to be productive instead of slacking off reading HN. I honestly m…

My gut is that they mean AI generated comments vs AI focused topics.

I did see at least one account that was posting a generated comment seconds after each submission posted.

Re: It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN

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I know it's controversial during this incredible AI hype cycle on this site, but as a AI skeptic and increasingly neo-Luddite, I've reduced the amount I spend on this site by 90% since the start of the year. If only I could add my userscript on my iOS Firefox to just hide any post containing the words "GPT", "AI" or "LLM", but alas, I guess I will have to be productive instead of slacking off reading HN. I honestly m…

Tags would help here, in that you could use them to filter out what you don't want to see.

I've asked many times for HN to allow tagging, but my sense is that it's never going to happen.

Another idea is to use a spam filter on an RSS feed of HN articles. I did this decades ago for my personal feed, using bayesean spam filters, and it worked well enough.

Finally, you could use an AI to filter for you.

Re: It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN

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I know it's controversial during this incredible AI hype cycle on this site, but as a AI skeptic and increasingly neo-Luddite, I've reduced the amount I spend on this site by 90% since the start of the year. If only I could add my userscript on my iOS Firefox to just hide any post containing the words "GPT", "AI" or "LLM", but alas, I guess I will have to be productive instead of slacking off reading HN. I honestly m…

I see 3 kind of people, all common on HN: - The luddites: it's just hype. - The doomers: AI will kill us all. - The AI indie hackers: dunno about AI, I'm trying to make money with it. Somehow the intersection is right: AI is not really smart, but it will replace a lot of human activity anyhow.

Yah. I mean, a lot of human activity in employment is not really smart.

Anything that you can make into a fairly formulaic job for someone who's not really interested in doing it or improving too much is probably not very intellectually demanding (but perhaps may be a bit demanding in world perception or actuation than current AI/robotics systems).

And I believe that is "most jobs."

Re: It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN

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I know it's controversial during this incredible AI hype cycle on this site, but as a AI skeptic and increasingly neo-Luddite, I've reduced the amount I spend on this site by 90% since the start of the year. If only I could add my userscript on my iOS Firefox to just hide any post containing the words "GPT", "AI" or "LLM", but alas, I guess I will have to be productive instead of slacking off reading HN. I honestly m…

I see 3 kind of people, all common on HN: - The luddites: it's just hype. - The doomers: AI will kill us all. - The AI indie hackers: dunno about AI, I'm trying to make money with it. Somehow the intersection is right: AI is not really smart, but it will replace a lot of human activity anyhow.

You forgot about the rest of us. Developers who are interested in the subject and want to read about the latest developments and techniques. We're actually interested in the computer science.

Re: It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN

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I was just lamenting to my friends last night about how the Trending (daily, weekly, and monthly) section on GitHub seems to be 90% AI/LLM related projects. I personally use some LLM functionality in my workflows and I appreciate the technology -- but at this point I want to have other types of projects bubble back up to the top.

Re: It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN

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I know it's controversial during this incredible AI hype cycle on this site, but as a AI skeptic and increasingly neo-Luddite, I've reduced the amount I spend on this site by 90% since the start of the year. If only I could add my userscript on my iOS Firefox to just hide any post containing the words "GPT", "AI" or "LLM", but alas, I guess I will have to be productive instead of slacking off reading HN. I honestly m…

I see 3 kind of people, all common on HN: - The luddites: it's just hype. - The doomers: AI will kill us all. - The AI indie hackers: dunno about AI, I'm trying to make money with it. Somehow the intersection is right: AI is not really smart, but it will replace a lot of human activity anyhow.

I would argue that a true luddite towards AI needs a corollary:

- The luddites: it's just hype — because I will kill it with fire before it takes over.

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