Live data from Hacker News

Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

twitter.com

271–280 of 433 posts

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

#271
post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Searching with "Reddit" at the end of every query helps but I suppose it's only a matter of time when most content on Reddit is also AI-generated.

Reddit is already lost. I was talking to the mods in a large political subreddit and they said after Reddit started charging for API access, all the tools they used to keep on top of the trolls and bots stopped working, and the quality of the whole subreddit declined visibly and dramatically.

It's not just the mods, it's also the culture of the website that changed.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

#272

I wonder: do all the HNers who are excited about their GenAI product or wrapper or startup understand, at a fundamental level, that they are an intrinsic part of this deterioration? Or is this one of those fundamental attribution error things: - MY product is a powerful tool for creators who wish to save time - THEIR product is just a poorly-though-out slop generator Does it occur to people to instead be part of some…

I propose a new rule. "Please respond to the actual actions and consequences of said actions, not what is said in a statement to generate positive PR. Assume putting one's money where one's mouth is, is harder to do than simply blow hot air about creating a private, ethical platform."

Sick and tired of giving parasites benefit of the doubt they've long sucked dry.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

#273
post #265
post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But I can generate something with AI and then sign it myself and say "I wrote it, pinky promise". Since most people don't write anything on the internet, I can pay people $5 to use their signature and operate a "sign farm". Look at the effort these people go though to send their spam.

A web of trust or reputation based system can be built on top of the signature scheme - maybe an appearance of smaller invite-only forums that share reputation. Or maybe it will just become an integrated part of the moderation of existing platforms like Reddit, Mastodon and Bluesky If you put your name on AI spam people will flag your post and no-one will bother to see your posts for at least a few years.

And if people don't like you what you're talking about then people will flag your post too. This is not going to work at any serious scale – certainly not across the internet – because abuse will be rampant.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

#274
post #46

Wouldn't surprise me if in a few years Google, for certain keywords: - autogenerates URLs (tha look legit) - autogenerates content for such URLs (that look kinda legit) All of this would be possible if one is using Chrome (otherwise the fake URLs wouldn't lead to anywhere). Of course, full of ads. Think about it, some people are not really looking for some web site that talks about "baby peacocks". They are looking f…

This sounds plausible actually

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

#275

Drives me nuts. The internet is dead. I just bought a home and I have been googling the best way to tackle certain home improvement projects - like how to prepare trim for painting. Virtually every result is some kind of content farm of AI-generated bullshit with advertising between every paragraph, an autoplay video (completely unrelated) that scrolls with the page, a modal popup asking me to accept cookies, a secon…

The video sites are gonna be way better for this. Or reddit. I don’t know how much longer that will be true with AI video generation becoming cheaper over time though

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

#277
post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For this kind of search, YouTube and TikTok (yes, TikTok) are your best bet. Videos are not (completely) flooded by AI (yet) and you can find pretty much anything about manual work. I prefer text content to videos by a long shot, but genuine, human text content is almost dead. Reddit might be one of the rare exceptions for now. There are also random, still active, old school forums for lots of things but they tend to…

Gaining information from a video (often just someone talking into their phone) feels like sucking a milkshake through a coffee stirrer compared to reading a forum post written by a human. Worse, you can't see how deep that milkshake is at a glance, so you may end up with just a sip from a melted puddle vs. the big volume of content you wanted.

That depends. For anything that involves learning how to do a physical movement, video is an infinitely more information dense medium to learn it through.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

#278
post #165

I wonder: do all the HNers who are excited about their GenAI product or wrapper or startup understand, at a fundamental level, that they are an intrinsic part of this deterioration? Or is this one of those fundamental attribution error things: - MY product is a powerful tool for creators who wish to save time - THEIR product is just a poorly-though-out slop generator Does it occur to people to instead be part of some…

Unfortunately your comment is doing the same thing, just at a different level—something like this: - I am a thoughtful technologist, building real things for real people, concerned about others and the social impact of my work; - they are greedy and ignorant, destroying society for short-term personal gain, no matter what the consequences. It's human nature to put badness on an abstract them , but we don't get anywhe…

First off, no, it did absolutely not do the same thing. It was a polemic question, sure, but it was a specific criticism of a technology and its proponents.

I did not make any claims about myself at all, until I was separately accused of being something or other by someone projecting onto me whatever it was they needed to feel better about themselves.

Second, you have rate-limited me with the "posting too fast" thing so I couldn't reply to your comment or other ad hominem, even though I was posting at a rate no faster than the discussions about OpenSCAD and FreeCAD I had been involved with earlier (considerably less, I would say).

It's IMO really classless to use your administrative privileges to silence people after you accuse them of something but before they can respond, but I am not surprised to see that.

I will repeat again: I think it is really clear to me, and really to everyone I have me outside this bubble, that there is no fine distinction to be drawn between content generating AI projects that are "good" and those that are contributing to "slop". It's all slop-generation; e.g. NotebookLM is no better or cleverer than Midjourney.

Every tool HNers are excited about is going to be used to make the world's culture, and the web, worse.

I'd encourage you and those reading to consider this.

Sure, you can't make much of a change by yourself. But you don't have to be part of what amounts to inflicting automated cultural vandalism on an unprecedented scale.

Goodbye.

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

#279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes you say this? I just tried a few Reddit searches about events from the last few days and they work as expected (tested in Kagi)

https://www.404media.co/google-is-the-only-search-engine-tha... https://www.reddit.com/robots.txt Reddit serves a different robots.txt to Googlebot, you can see a snippet of it in Googles summary. If Kagi is getting recent Reddit results then they must be either ignoring robots.txt, using Google as a backend, or also paying Reddit for access like Google. Bing and DuckDuckGo are certainly still locked out, I just trie…

Kagi didn't make it explicit, but based on what they wrote I think they API call Google and other search engines to show as part of their results.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

Re: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

#280
post #46

Wouldn't surprise me if in a few years Google, for certain keywords: - autogenerates URLs (tha look legit) - autogenerates content for such URLs (that look kinda legit) All of this would be possible if one is using Chrome (otherwise the fake URLs wouldn't lead to anywhere). Of course, full of ads. Think about it, some people are not really looking for some web site that talks about "baby peacocks". They are looking f…

This is https://websim.ai/
Post reply on HN