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Hacker News, Sans AI

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Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

#11

Interesting this keeps moving up the front page when the site is inaccessible because it's hosted on a baked potato.

I'm curious to find out if they're using a model to detect AI content. I'd be more amused than disappointed. But, alas, potato.

It's not an LLM.

Why use big program when regex do trick?

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

#13

Interesting this keeps moving up the front page when the site is inaccessible because it's hosted on a baked potato.

I'm curious to find out if they're using a model to detect AI content. I'd be more amused than disappointed. But, alas, potato.

I got a partial load and what it looks like it does is just search each submission for a list of key words and discards any that hits, so it would discard this submission.

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

#14
I have an app that does Hacker News with AI; it analyses all the stories and comments for a number of criteria, and tags them so you can skip stuff you don't want to see. I should get around to actually publishing it but I've been lazy.

One of the fun things I noticed is the psychological impact of framing. A comment that might've made you feel the need to reply before has less emotional weight if it's highlighted in red and a diminished font. Same thing for stories; if you would normally disagree with a story and it would make you want to comment, you feel less like commenting if the story is rated as 'lacking evidence', 'unsupported by research', 'personal anecdotes only', etc. It drives down the feeling of needing to engage. Which is horrible for site engagement, but good for mental health (I think).

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

#15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious to find out if they're using a model to detect AI content. I'd be more amused than disappointed. But, alas, potato.

I got a partial load and what it looks like it does is just search each submission for a list of key words and discards any that hits, so it would discard this submission.

I would argue that in a small way, this post _is_ about AI, so it wouldn't be a false positive.

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

#17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious to find out if they're using a model to detect AI content. I'd be more amused than disappointed. But, alas, potato.

It's not an LLM. Why use big program when regex do trick?

Master of efficiency

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

#19

Interesting this keeps moving up the front page when the site is inaccessible because it's hosted on a baked potato.

73% of users vote prior to reading TFA, according to this research. (I am sometimes guilty of this myself)

We live in a world being dimished by confirmation bias, but this isn't a new thing. Those who wrote/approved the headlines always had more power than those who wrote the articles.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315096490_Consumers...

edit: disclaimer, no hate on TFA. Just responding to the comment.

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

#20
I can deal with a launch problem. I am looking forward to being able to check it out. I stopped coming to HN as often as I used to because there has been too much AI talk. It's like a dang AI subreddit. I don't want anything to do with AI. I have lost 2 jobs to AI budgets and stupid executive decisions. It's no longer part of my personal and professional life.

I hope it works out.

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