What is the point of this?
Feeding the beast
12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit
21–30 of 167 posts
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#22> Showing 1-25 of 58891 posts I have to imagine that one quality post worth reading would be linked in multiple places, thus would beat tens of thousands of slop articles for SEO purposes?
> I have to imagine that one quality post worth reading ...
As the Berliners say:
"Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt"
or:
"Hope is the last thing to die" (or "hope dies last" if one prefers a literal translation)
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#23At which URL(s) are the blog posts visible?
https://oneuptime.com/blog
Scroll down a little and you'll see a huge block of posts dated March 31st
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#24"Showing 1 - 25 of 45488 posts" I miss the days when we could assume that's just a pagination code bug
It's "Showing 1 - 25 of 58891 posts" now. HN tells me that your comment was posted 6 minutes ago, which gives us approximately 37.23 posts/second rate.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great point! At this point the Dead Internet Theory isn't a conspiracy – it's a roadmap. It's worth noting he distinction between "authentic" and "synthetic" online spaces is eroding faster than most people realize – that's a genuinely important conversation to be have. /s
Great imitation
The dead internet theory terrifies me. I don't think we're at the point where it's mostly dead but we're already way past the point where any discussion worth anything can be had on the internet itself. The problem is not that everything could be AI slop but that anything could. It simply takes the wind out the sails and makes one question what's even the point if anything could just be written by a clanker. Anything you write could just be screaming out into the void, affecting no one, and just maybe adding to the training corpus for the next generation of clankers.
Just writing this made me question "what's the point" several times. If you or anyone replies cogently, I still won't have any idea if it's a person or a Chinese room.
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#26AI is the stellar moment for all mediocrity and conmen.
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#27I suspect we'll address this by just going back to older ranking algorithms for search. We'll go back to the primary signal of good content being links from trusted sources.
People gaming the content based algorithms will eventually cause their own downfall.
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#28I thought somebody counted them… incredibly, the log message admits to committing 12,000 articles. I guess that means the log message was authored by AI as well. Figures.
I am kind of upset at github that we can not easily block AI content
coming from their site.
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#29If the dead Internet theory wasn't true before, it sure will be soon.
Only if we allow it to happen. It is time for the Empire of common man and woman to strike back against AI slop and companies that promote it - such as microslop.
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