This is great. Please put together an extension. I use Safari but this might get me to switch.
Something that would give me a button I could press to de-bullshit a site, not one that tries it on every single site maybe?
Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites
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Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites
#62I pointed it to PornHub, and it returned this curiously wholesome summary: - 140 million daily engaged users - 600,000 active content creators - 1 million hours of free content available - Features include playlist creation and community engagement - Tailored video suggestions - Option to subscribe to Pornhub Premium for exclusive content at $9.99/month with a free week trial available.
Were you required to provide a drivers license number for the AI to view that?
PH blocks users in jurisdictions that require invasive age verification. They do not collect drivers license numbers from viewers.
Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites
#63I don't understand what "AI" is referring to here. Seems like it's removing useless fillers in general, which makes the title underselling it. I thought it was a service removing AI images or something, which wouldn't be that interesting.
Yes, that's true - actually i meant distilling the key points from articles and removing AI generated SEO fillers among other things
Sure... You just wanted to add your own clickbait because AI is popular, ironic huh?
Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites
#64I completely share your frustration with filler content and the tedious hunt for actual "news." (It speaks volumes about the state of the news industry—declining subscriptions, the normalization of clickbait, and a focus on quantity over quality.) However, relying on AI as a solution has its own pitfalls: Even state-of-the-art models frequently generate inaccuracies and hallucinations, which raises questions about wh…
Yeah. I put URLs I'm 100% sure weren't generated by AI spammers, and got out a third rate AI generated summary that skipped most of the detail. I put in URLs consisting entirely of obviously AI-generated shilling and got brief AI generated shilling. I put in the HN homepage and the text got longer ....
Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't this shortsighted in the sense that it removes all incentive for the creators to create? A pre-click quality signal is more interesting and fair I imagine. Though I don't know how one can build a solution that is not game-able.
It would be a good thing that it removes incentives for the creators to create. Read between the lines: for the majority of current low-content creators, who are driven by the incentives that exist today . That would leave us with another set of new creators that would emerge, those people who would be driven just by the desire of sharing a tiny piece of their lives or knowledge, purely for the fun of it, without nee…
> It would be a good thing that it removes incentives for the creators to create.
Absolutely. The Internet has way too many "content creators" and not enough "artists, writers, and musicians."
When I go online, I'm not looking to "discover and consume content." What a bland way to describe the output of creativity.
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#66The irony of AI removing AI content. I used this for my marketing generation (using AI of course) real estate business and it misinterpreted examples as the actual listings. Also if you use Https instead of https in the url field it gives an error…
> The irony of AI removing AI content We love novel ways of wasting fossil fuels!! Nothing directed at OP here, I actually love this idea and I’ll totally use this for recipes
Just like the crypto the AI craze maybe be another instantiation of Bostrom's paperclip maximiser running on a hybrid human-machine topology.
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#67Feels like it “RSS-ified” a given website, which is a good vibe . Something like this baked into RSS-Bridge or some other feed curation platform could be a great way to ingest websites that lack RSS feeds themselves, especially if the codebase can run locally.
Beyond that, maybe we should bring back Gopher. Pictures online really don't seem to be worth 1000 words these days.
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. --Alan Perlis
Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites
#68Much of the trash on the internet has nothing to do with AI, but instead is caused by using AdSense type funding. If you have a site and use revenue from ads as your funding, then the way to in increase your revenue is more show more ads. So add more fluff, move the actual thing people are looking for to the bottom, etc. Oh and add controversy, "The only authentic". Then add sex - a suggestive photo. The thing is tha…
People love them some Faustian bargain.
Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites
#69I bookmarked this comment a few months ago because I thought it was hilarious and increasingly accurate: It's approaching a very strange situation where people make overly wordy and bloated AI generated content and other people try to use AI to compress it back into useful pellets vaguely corresponding to the actual prompts used to generate the initial content. Which were the only bits anybody cared about in the firs…
Isn't this an advancement in communication though? People can put out a message in whatever language or style they prefer, the machine translators translate it into an overly verbose AI vomit, and readers condense it back down into the exact kind of personalized language they're wanting to consume.
Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites
#70Much of the trash on the internet has nothing to do with AI, but instead is caused by using AdSense type funding. If you have a site and use revenue from ads as your funding, then the way to in increase your revenue is more show more ads. So add more fluff, move the actual thing people are looking for to the bottom, etc. Oh and add controversy, "The only authentic". Then add sex - a suggestive photo. The thing is tha…
Sure but that garbage is what AI have been trained on.