AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest • Hacker News Board

Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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Post by Henchman21 » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 3:32 PM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #180

Henchman21 wrote: post #179

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For real there is no single collection of online pedantry more pedantic than HN.

Actually, before HN there was Usenet which I assure you, as I know everything, was much more pedantic than HN ever was.

To my memory they are very similar amounts of pedantry. Not sure to how measure it tbh! Regardless, you're making a solid point. :)

Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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Post by DrewADesign » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

skybrian wrote: post #130

DrewADesign wrote: post #69

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If you don't try to have fun with it then you're not going to have fun.

I’ll bet you haven’t had to look for a job in a really long time.

Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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Post by DrewADesign » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

ameliaquining wrote: post #139

skybrian wrote: post #130

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If you don't try to have fun with it then you're not going to have fun.

I think the problem is that, once you get good enough to reliably spot AI output at a given level of obviousness, seeing more of it stops being fun and starts being just depressing, and this is more true the more of it you see. There's no shame in not being that experienced yet, but if you're not, you should recognize that people who are are naturally going to have a different reaction.

Now imagine it’s that, plus, it torpedoed a career change that involved graduating from art school in 2024 because it fucked the entry-level creative job market.

Definitely not having ‘fun’ with it anymore than I had ‘fun’ with cancer.