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Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by defrost »

basch wrote: post #126
paul7986 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"But just need to know how to prompt AI properly to..," - Write a new top 40 song no talent required - Write a business email, a school paper, etc & no talent required - Design a logo, a website, an app, a billboard, etc and no talent required. AI is the best thing to happen to humanity as it mimics & steals humanity for a few pie holes and us the majority does nothing to stop it!

The Top 40 songs were already soulless. Now that anyone can generate a halfway decent pop song at the snap of the finger leads to one of three outcomes. We all just listen to our own interactive stations and have no shared culture, pressure is put on industry to differentiate with a higher quality product, the technology is democratizing and unlocks a new generation of creatives who are able to work with it creating…

#4 Some continue merrily onwards with weekly / regular jam sessions with friends and passers through, catering to all skill levels and largely ignoring top 40 and AI trends.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by e38383 »

Start at the OS level, you have maybe another 6-12 month left to find something built without AI.

So, basically: just bear with us a little bit longer and then drop all computer usage (this will include every tech which blinks).

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by simonw »

hackable_sand wrote: post #119
simonw wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because "I really wish posts like this would clarify". I was making a point that saying "I hate AI" is intellectually lazy. The discourse here can be a whole lot better if people put more effort into clarity. I want Hacker News to be a better place for technically sophisticated conversations than most of Reddit.

But you know exactly which form of AI is exhausting everyone through mediocre application. You know exactly which form of AI requires constant propaganda and astroturfing to get a thimble of adoption. Fugazi as fuck

I think generative AI for slop posts and images on Facebook is a different issue from generative AI for coding agents, even when they share the same underlying models.

Or generative AI that was used to find 272 vulnerabilities that were fixed in Firefox 150 this week: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/ai-security-zer...

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by sph »

Tangential: I’m sick of being addicted to this site. The lowering of the signal-to-noise ratio has made the addiction worse, as I still hope to find a nugget of quality posts among a sea of AI discussion, which is not even technical, just comparing what LLM 1 vs 2 said. Any post by Anthropic & co. (twice a week) gets hundreds of points, goes to the top of the frontpage, and the rest of the week are articles testing/benchmarking/complaining about it. During lulls, we have a slew of opinion blogs where everyone and their dog tell a story about how they used AI to do a thing.

At this point I am certain even the most pro AI people on this site would like a bit more variety. The saddest part is that I’ve had to turn to Reddit to get a bit more colour to my media diet.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by gitaarik »

bambax wrote: post #17

One problem is that when people delegate tasks to AI, they don't themselves learn anything from doing the task -- not just in the general sense of personal improvement, but in the very concrete sense of "what is it that was produced". Before AI, when someone showed you a presentation or an Excel sheet, even if it was complete horseshit that they had made up, they knew what was in it: they knew more about it than you,…

But you also spend less time on those tasks, allowing you to do more of those tasks. And if you still spend the same amount of time, and use AI as am assistant, and do review the AI's work, then you can actually learn from it faster.

But I understand that many people don't do that and just finish their task with AI and then don't do anything anymore.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by sph »

an0malous wrote: post #32

I think we’ll look back on this period as The Great Enshittification where everyone ran out of ideas but capitalism demands growth so everything just got worse. The mass manufacturing of mediocre AI content might be the force that ends the digital era and maybe we’ll all just go outside again.

You think there is a way out for the Internet after the invention of the digital bullshit machine?

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by fatbird »

cortesoft wrote: post #111
ofjcihen wrote: post #76

For me it’s just become…incredibly boring. There’s something uninspiring about a machine thats supposed to “do the hard things for you” so to speak. I like using my mind and understanding things deeply. Sure you could say that “managing the AI” can be deeply understood in a way but it’s just not exciting.

I am curious where you draw your line. We have all sorts of “machines that do the hard things for you”, do you shun them all? Cars, washing machines, lawnmowers, etc… I know that AI has some different characteristics than those technologies, but my point is that I don’t think your issue is that does the hard things for you… there has to be something else going on.

Are you this patronizing and condescending in the rest of your life?

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by CSSer »

mech422 wrote: post #112
skyberrys wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was a teenager around the dot-com and to this day I feel an idealized sense of longing for participation in the exciting times of the dot-coms. You guys got to enjoy the blazing innovation of the new internet, so full of endless possibilities. Tough luck on your bubble popping moment though.

The sad part wasn't the bubble bursting... It was watching all the potential being squandered and the internet basically being relegated to click farming and selling people crap they don't need. All the really cool stuff seems to have died with the bubble...

You're still around :)
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