Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

Reddit's /r/programming banned all AI related posts temporarily. And I must admit, it made the place more interesting.

Maybe have AI Tuesdays, where you only post AI crap every Tuesday?

I think the sad part was the people entering the IT workforce for only money. Don't get me wrong, I understand why and not gatekeeping. But it was the first time I know that people with computer skills were highly in demand, so anyone who had turned on a computer was able to get a job even if they knew nothing of how a computer actually worked, or networking.

And yet you’re posting on HN. Curious.

I would be miserable too if my job had to do with anything Internet.

It has gone from this cool inter-human knowledge hub and space for creation to a place where everyone tries to sell you something and make the sales pitch unskippable. It’s miserable.

It started getting weird when the full home invasion of Internet-connected nonsense started. I have eyes, I can see there is no milk in the fridge, I don’t need a push notification or glowing circle that says, “May I have your attention, please? Here are five Bezos offers for milk.”

I put up a wall of cheap 3D-printed waterproof enclosures near the local train station with the one in the middle having a handwritten letter from me and a bunch of blank sheets behind it, that asks people to write down knowledge that they think is useful for the rest of the community.

Only rules, no AI-generated content or printouts from websites. If it’s not handwritten or has ads, everyone passing by is allowed to remove and destroy it.

Everything else stays for exactly one week, then it gets removed to make space for something new.

If every enclosure is full, I put a few more up and watch and remove those who stay empty at the end of the week.

Went through 600 sheets of paper so far but people also started putting little hand-drawn artworks and their own colourful paper sheets in by themselves so the cost is more than manageable, as I just walk into the local town hall and take a bunch of paper from their copy stations from time to time.

Every week I go there to remove the letters from people and collect them in folders to make space for new ones. From live advice to cooking recipes with local ingredients, art, poetry, it’s pretty cool to see how many people are getting off the Internet and rather spending time doing this for their local community.

Often when the news are bad and I feel stressed and the next catastrophe is looming I go there with some coffee and watch people look at everything and talk about the stuff put up.

Soon I am running out of wall and will have to look for an extra space.

I simply do not longer believe in sharing valuable knowledge over the Internet as it gets hammered by AI crawlers and then integrated into models and no longer giving credit to the people who created it. So why bother.

My prediction is, that the more (generative) AI is used on the internet, the smaller the world will become.

Most of you will have a miserable life if your livelihood belongs to slaving away for companies relying on being present on the internet, and local knowledge hubs, which are reserved for human knowledge and creativity only, will be the places you meet real people and enjoy sharing knowledge and culture again.

I think AI having the potential to kill the current iteration of the Internet will probably be the best thing it is capable of doing for humanity.

Adapting is what we humans are best at, and I think most humans will adapt away from an internet mostly free of human-first created knowledge and culture. With a bit of luck I’ll live long enough to see if I am right.

You forget the "Show HN: Here's some crap I cobbled together with an LLM" x a million a day