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Re: Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience

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Post by basscomm »

beerd wrote: post #2

Hey team! I find journaling for a fictive audience to be more effective personally; since it forces me to try digest my thoughts for an external listener. Then why not add the actual fictive audience through LLMs? That's how this was born. Feel free to leave your thoughts/feedback here.

> Hey team! I find journaling for a fictive audience to be more effective personally; since it forces me to try digest my thoughts for an external listener.

Okay, but I don't understand the benefit of writing to an entirely fictitious AI construct instead of writing to the ideal of the kind of reader you'd eventually like to have.

I mean, I get that it's frustrating to pour effort into writing something that effectively nobody reads (i.e. you never connect with a wider audience), but engaging with an entirely fictitious audience seems hollow to me.

Re: Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience

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Post by moshun »

Given the rapidly diminishing quality of discourse on the open internet the last decade or so, I understand.

I recently restricted comments on my blog or 15 years to existing subscribers only. It took me a while to accept that after removing the random spam, then the racist, misogynist, homophobic, and other lowlife commenters, I was left with 10-15% of discussions worth reading.

Pretty sad state of affairs, and it’s clear it’s degrading faster every day.

Re: Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience

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Post by mrtesthah »

stavros wrote: post #25
saaaaaam wrote: post #17

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I love how you see this super introverted thing for super introverts and your advice is "maybe meet a human". Well, here's what this human has to say: Maybe you just aren't the target audience.

Using AI for companionship is poison.

Re: Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience

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Post by jrm4 »

OP, pay no attention to the haters. Brilliant idea, especially given the slop out there. For my journaling, I've been experimenting with similar.

That being said, whatever I do I'm going to keep completely in-house, as in offline with local LLMs only, because privacy.

Re: Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience

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Post by willturman »

willturman wrote: post #27

This feels like one of those moments where you're witnessing history be made in real-time. And I hate it. It takes approximately zero effort to see how this could be both monetized and used for harm. This episode of Black Mirror is writing itself and congratulating itself in the comments.

At what point is the internet just ... dead? AI posts with AI comments generated for the sole purpose of spamming affiliate links to drop-shipped products we don't need to generate ephemeral satisfaction in fulfilling our purpose as an economics unit of consumption? Where do I sign up for the beta?

Re: Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience

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Post by niam »

oidar wrote: post #6

Can I include an asshole AI? Or one that nitpicks my grammar? Also need someone to explain how I am wrong about nearly everything and should give up writing? Otherwise it would feel super fake.

Perhaps this is a joke but I'd truly love to sic a fleet of asshole AIs on my drafts.

Grant us the ability to reply to bots in a public and timestamped manner so that, if ever a human makes a similarly ridiculous response, we can just point at our response there. It'd free up space in the piece itself that'd otherwise go to asterisks and other preemptions of armchair dweebery.

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