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Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined

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Re: Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined

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Post by rpdillon »

Tiberium wrote: post #8
debo_ wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you not?

Not what? It's incredibly ironic that the creator is complaining about AI yet they used AI just to write a tiny text announcement. Apparently such a tiny snippet didn't deserve human writing.

"It was written with AI!" is boring (and often wrong). It shows up on almost every post, and doesn't require any skill or insight. That's why GP said "Can you please not?" It's just not interesting.

Re: Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined

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Post by Tiberium »

rpdillon wrote: post #11
Tiberium wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not what? It's incredibly ironic that the creator is complaining about AI yet they used AI just to write a tiny text announcement. Apparently such a tiny snippet didn't deserve human writing.

"It was written with AI!" is boring (and often wrong). It shows up on almost every post, and doesn't require any skill or insight. That's why GP said "Can you please not?" It's just not interesting.

I only post it when I'm sure and I cross verified. And in this case specifically it's not boring, quite the opposite, it just shows that humans can be quite inconsistent. I really hope HN would extend its no LLM rule to articles/text, although this is too hard to enforce. When I look at HN, I want to read human text, I don't mind the use of LLMs for actual code and use it a lot myself. My issue is with people who generate whole articles with LLMs and present them as if they were written by a real human.

Re: Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined

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Post by anigbrowl »

Tiberium wrote: post #8
debo_ wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you not?

Not what? It's incredibly ironic that the creator is complaining about AI yet they used AI just to write a tiny text announcement. Apparently such a tiny snippet didn't deserve human writing.

You are a fool if you think you can detect AI reliably from such a short sample. It seems not to have occurred to you that some people can write with expression and wit, and AI emulates their style.

Re: Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined

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Post by ashu1461 »

Though I empathise with the OP, I feel that SaaS tools now need to add much more value in order to be sellable or appeal to the audience.

The factors that used to influence the build vs. buy decision are now changing. Earlier, even small tools like Canny (which shows your product roadmap to your customers), link-in-bio tools, or even Calendly used to sell well. I foresee that changing.

Re: Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined

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Post by stickfigure »

Tiberium wrote: post #8
debo_ wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you not?

Not what? It's incredibly ironic that the creator is complaining about AI yet they used AI just to write a tiny text announcement. Apparently such a tiny snippet didn't deserve human writing.

You have no idea. Stop it.

Re: Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined

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Post by epolanski »

Tiberium wrote: post #8
debo_ wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you not?

Not what? It's incredibly ironic that the creator is complaining about AI yet they used AI just to write a tiny text announcement. Apparently such a tiny snippet didn't deserve human writing.

It's ironic since your comment was clearly written with AI.

Apparently even an HN comment didn't deserve human writing.

Re: Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined

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Post by morkalork »

wxw wrote: post #3

From Gemini, > FreeFormatter.com [was] a popular online utility website that provides free formatting, validation, conversion, and minification tools for developers, data professionals, and web administrators working with code and data structures like JSON, XML, HTML, SQL, and Java Makes sense. Great exit letter.

Thank you, I parsed the url as "free for matter" and was very confused

Re: Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined

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Post by pixl97 »

Tiberium wrote: post #8
debo_ wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you not?

Not what? It's incredibly ironic that the creator is complaining about AI yet they used AI just to write a tiny text announcement. Apparently such a tiny snippet didn't deserve human writing.

I mean, I've seen HN detecting AI written articles at a 300 to 500% rate, like that time they were saying an article originally written in 2015 was by AI.

So do this, if you think it's AI written send a complaint to the hackernews email address to have it removed. If you don't want to do that, don't spam up the comments calling articles AI.

And those AI detectors are hot worthless garbage. Just like YouTube detecting Kurzgesagt as AI last week. Useless.

Re: Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined

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Post by throwatdem12311 »

From the sounds of it - Devutils on MacOS is an excellent offline (native app) slop-free alternative and the license is worth it for the extra functions and supporting the developer. Boop is free, open source and also great.

Not sure what to suggest for Linux or Windows. I think I remember seeing something similar on Flathub for Linux but the name eludes me atm.

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