Yes, a lot of posts on HN are also about AI. Used to have more variety.
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#42I noticed recently that there are new "AI Widget" and "Chat Widget" EasyList filters in the uBlock Origin Annoyances filter lists. I'm not sure when they were added but they weren't checked by default for me. They definitely help clear some of the clutter.
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#43There is no future for AI doomers. Bye bye dodos.
Far from “dooming”, AI currently has a major public image problem - it’s got a lower approval rating than the current President. Most people’s perception of AI is the lousy customer service chatbot, a phone tree that doesn’t work when they call customer service, and AI generated spam, scammy images, and so forth. Couple with that the frequent press about “AI is going to replace your job” and the public image problem…
Bot implementation quality is up to the engineer. It is not an inherent limitation of the LLM. Granted, management always comes in the way of a good deliverable. I ask people to vote with their wallet if the experience is lacking.
AI replacing jobs is a good thing. I don't know why people want to keep doing stupid jobs that even a machine can do. As for their income, they should vote for politicians that give them benefits rather than take them away.
I am sure there were people for a few decades that complained that horses were no longer in demand, but these people are now extinct, and the AI doomers will be too.
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#44Facebook especially is bad because I don't think Zuck cares. His entire personal history is shady. People have been missing posts for YEARS, well beyond the last few years when it got really bad
Oh and messages https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090712
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#45Hear, hear, friend, you might have missed web 2.0. Oh web 2.0. The designers like myself were so sick of this nonsense.
AI is the same, but amplified and affecting a lot more people.
So I just recall Web 2.0 era and know that this too, shall pass.
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#46I'm working with AI since early 00's and it was a lot of fan of this with very little community of an artificial neural networks developers. Now AI is widely available and used by people with discussable level of intelligence to generate tons of slop, so all the internet looks like a big trash bin.
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#47I took compliance training today and the "actors" and voices were AI. After watching the GPT images release video, it reenforced my skepticism that society will adapt. Then I thought about AI analysis of people's movements in public and realized that governments already capture everything, and now will be able to use infinite AI surveillance agents to watch all things all the time. Any disobedience or crime (but real…
This has been happening in China since 2018[1]. North Korea is able to oppress its citizens just fine without AI. I don't think recent advances are going to revolutionize government oppression.
[1] https://inv.thepixora.com/watch?v=CLo3e1Pak-Y
youtube version: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CLo3e1Pak-Y
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#48Yes, a lot of posts on HN are also about AI. Used to have more variety.
What's especially frustrating is that the posts about AI are also disproportionately written by AI. I can sort of understand that people who are very enthusiastic about LLMs also use them for blogging. But the most bizarre part is that a lot of anti-AI opinion pieces are LLM-generated too. Either cynical click-sploitation or extreme hypocrisy.
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#49Nothing makes me hit that close button faster than those fake voices everywhere now. That overly polished narrator on every other TikTok, half the YouTube videos read by the same auto-tuned robot (that apparently people over 60 can't tell is a robot). And don't get me started on streamers with like a confidence voice filter. Fuck all that noise.
And it's only going to get worse. Is this what getting old feels like? Hating everything the rest of society is racing to embrace? I keep waiting for the backlash, for people to get sick of the plastic sheen on everything, but they conveyor belt just keeps moving. Maybe I'm just turning into my parents griping about all the weird music videos on MTV? =P
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s wrong with printers? Imagine designing a laser that bounces off of mirror spinning at 20k+ rpm while coordinating with a paper feeder. Sounds pretty cool to me
I love printers, I hate ink cartridges
I love printers and ink, I hate the people that make the experience worse in hopes of making more money.