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

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Post by theolivenbaum » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 12:55 PM UTC

It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN
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Post by stuartd » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 3:03 PM UTC

As a large language model, I am not prepared to confirm or deny this.

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Post by sph » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 3:10 PM UTC

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 miss the Bitcoin hype era, or the short lived Erlang circlejerk that had pg himself put a stop to it. This one does not seem to die down anytime soon, and I'd like to read more criticism of the technology, rather than starry eyed engineers excited to add ChatGPT to their smart fridge and bird feeder.

EDIT: Funny. 1 hour ago when I wrote this comment, this post was in 3rd position. Now, with 82 votes and 103 comments, it's nowhere to be found in the first 10 pages. @dang, what's going on?

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Post by usui » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 3:10 PM UTC

I wonder how much extra work this has created for moderation.

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Post by reportgunner » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 3:13 PM UTC

The page is unavailable.

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Post by cratermoon » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 3:14 PM UTC

Given how much money YC investors have in the GPT/AI/LLM space, I wouldn't expect it to slow down any time soon.

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Post by smt88 » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 3:14 PM UTC

usui wrote: post #4

I wonder how much extra work this has created for moderation.

I believe this is tracking content about LLMs, not content written by LLMs.

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Post by fennecfoxy » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 3:15 PM UTC

"Unavailable"

Well of course there is, it's one the most exciting new technologies we've had in a long time. For so many years all the best models could do was identify handwritten digits, then semi-recently identify subjects in photos and now more recently (all of a sudden, really) generate beautiful and detailed images from plain English as well as converse in English and perform a variety of tasks to varying success.

It's exciting as hecky and while I'm sure that some people are having the same reaction to it that an Intel or AMD fan has when the opposition releases a new CPU everyone wants to talk about; everyone else is appropriately excited.

If this AI boom ever dies down, don't worry, everyone will go back to posting/complaining about the posts of new JS frameworks. ;)

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Post by cc101 » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 3:15 PM UTC

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Post by quiet_light » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 3:16 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #3

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…

here's an extension I created for this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-filter... firefox : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-f... . no llm filter yet but I can add that too.