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AI ate HN also. It’s ridiculous how many articles are about AI now. Are we truly out of any new ideas? Can we not talk about something else? I kind of like AI but it’s a tool, I don’t talk about my screwdriver constantly.
Paywalled articles ate Internet
YC remains a great source of creative inspiration for me. However, I tend to skip most AI-related content on HN, as the topic does more harm than good to me in my daily life. Some people around me delegate more and more decisions to the chat, and that frightens. Especially if you are somehow dependent on them or your work gets evaluated by some creepy AI-driven bossware. We should admit that AI, particularly LLMs, is…
I was recently in a work AI training where we were encouraged to have AI review all our vendor and contractor budgets and find holes and create rebuttals to line items. Was wondering what if the vendor has ai review our rebuttals and create counter-points to our ai-created arguments. At some point it will just be AI talking against itself to another AI chatbot.
As anyone in the US healthcare insurance claims-adjacent spaces can tell you: yes, in about 2 years.
Paywalled articles ate Internet
It was inevitable when ads were no longer enough to sustain websites, I suppose. It is a shame how critical news may be paywalled out from the public, though. Tragic, but fitting.
Just loading the one article results in:
335 requests 7.9 MB transferred 23.6 MB resources
Hosting would be less expensive if they didn't bloat up what could be a simple static document.
Paywalled articles ate Internet
It was inevitable when ads were no longer enough to sustain websites, I suppose. It is a shame how critical news may be paywalled out from the public, though. Tragic, but fitting.
Also when any public content started being gulped up by scrapers and resold as AI.
> Going through YC’s startup directory reveals that of the 170 startups in the most recent summer batch 154 are AI startups. The author calculates this by searching for the term "AI" in the name and description of each startup's YC page. But presence of the term "AI" doesn't make a startup an "AI startup," so to speak. For example, I picked one startup at random, Topological, which is "developing physics-based founda…
I think you need to expand a bit more this. I does sound to me that if you are using AI in the main product you are an AI startup.
It is similar with if you are offering a web version of your app you are an internet company. And if you are offering a mobile version you are a mobile company.
and a company can be more than one: An internet AI mobile company :)
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It was inevitable when ads were no longer enough to sustain websites, I suppose. It is a shame how critical news may be paywalled out from the public, though. Tragic, but fitting.
It feels like a self-imposed trap though. Just loading the one article results in: 335 requests 7.9 MB transferred 23.6 MB resources Hosting would be less expensive if they didn't bloat up what could be a simple static document.
I was at a meeting of a bunch of VCs a while ago (a couple of months). The principal partner of one of the larger funds said that they will now only consider investments that are AI related. Just to give you a data point, I'm not saying that that is a trend. But if that's a market representative you can't fault the supply side for adapting to it.
Or put another way, their competency relies completely on people not associated with the company.
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Why almost lie though? Like, if I am a company and I integrate AI just to say to my investors that I got AI so that they can not feel FOMO is utterly bonkers and well, I don't know but the investors definitely don't sound reasonable and I think that the people who are somehow lending money to these investors who are investing on such basis definitely need to think about their life choices if the company in their port…
I don't think anyone anywhere on the totem pole: from the junior engineer, to the engineering manager, to the founder, to the VC, to the investors, cares if it's actually AI. They just want to see the word there. Someone got it into their head that "AI is the thing now" and now the junior engineer isn't going to get hired unless he says AI. The Eng manager is not going to get promoted unless he talks about managing A…
That is just exploitative of sorts on preying people who don't have enough knowledge about AI let's say...
And this behaviour shouldn't be condoned though
> And investors have no clue what to do with their money, but heard somewhere that "AI is the thing now" and that's where they want to flush their money.
This is where the system needs to change, People need to realize this that maybe AI is in a bit of bubble right now and not try to invest in such things...
But profits....
Shush, profits can come another day if business has good solid financials otherwise welp, that isn't investing, that's just speculating in the AI bubble
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It was inevitable when ads were no longer enough to sustain websites, I suppose. It is a shame how critical news may be paywalled out from the public, though. Tragic, but fitting.
It feels like a self-imposed trap though. Just loading the one article results in: 335 requests 7.9 MB transferred 23.6 MB resources Hosting would be less expensive if they didn't bloat up what could be a simple static document.
That's exactly why this AI hype is a capitalists wet dream. Even if the overall cost doesn't go down, it's the potential to produce products without any uppity employees demanding raises, or pushing back on your clearly brilliant idea that you totally didn't need experts for. With workers who work 24/7 who will never threaten to leave, and no pesky labor laws to worry about.