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Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

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Post by conception »

vohk wrote: post #60
ConceitedCode wrote: post #27

I 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.

I don't have a ton of hope just yet because I think it's still an incentives problem rather than a technical one. I got tired of the increasing AI slop in my YouTube Music feed and switched to Deezer a few months ago. Since then, not a single AI artist I've been able to spot. If a relatively marginal player like that can manage it, why can't Spotify or YTM? My suspicion is simply that Deezer actually actually tries.…

Spotify 100% rather buy/produce AI music than pay artists. Also they demonetized most of their artists so if they can pump AI songs that sound enough like what you listen to and then stop promoting them they don’t have to pay anyone.

Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

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Post by post-it »

dataviz1000 wrote: post #57
post-it wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's kinda exciting. The social media status quo has its upsides but a lot of downsides. I'm hopeful that the change will be good. We'll have to figure out a way to authenticate the people we're talking to, which will encourage tighter-knit communities.

This will end with the only way to authenticate the people we're talking to is meeting them at the coffeeshop in the morning.

That might be okay. We'd lose a lot, obviously, but if you could 100% trust that the person you met at a coffee shop is real, and you could 99% trust that the person they met the day before is real, and you could 98% trust the person that person met is real, you've got three degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

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Post by whycombinetor »

sigmonsays wrote: post #31

when AI starts training itself accidentally on AI generated content, we all lose...

Meanwhile on the HN main page right now: "Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637757

Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

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Post by self_awareness »

raincole wrote: post #66
self_awareness wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This post is added because it's so easy and to show that it's being done in real life. That we can't have nice things, because of mindless people like Nawaz Dhandala.

I'm quite sure in every passing second people are pumping more AI slop to the internet. I just don't see why this is something special (unless it's a well-known project among HN users that I'm not aware of.)

I'm also quite sure, but this is the proof, not hypothesis -- with git commits and all.

Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

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Post by conception »

bakugo wrote: post #64
raincole wrote: post #52

Serious question: What is this post about and why should we care? It's a repo with 35 stars. Is adding 12,000 posts in a single commit somehow technically difficult or significant?

You should care because this website has a high ranking on Google and these 12000 posts will show up every time you search something programming related.

Stop using Google. Kagi lets you block and prioritize sites.

Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

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Post by politelemon »

iuvcaw wrote: post #35
ConceitedCode wrote: post #27

I 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.

Ironically this post is doing wonders for its page rank, as people are linking to it in the comments

I wonder if we ought to be flagging it then? There's already so much uninteresting AI slop observations.

Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

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Post by TrackerFF »

I've seen an increase in this "firehose" tactic among the passive-income folks, where the idea is to just saturate certain niches with AI-generated content, and collect some cents here and some cents there - in the hopes it will generate as much money as maintaining a single high-quality content channel.

Don't know if they actually make any money doing it like that. A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across some content-creator that said he had hundreds of faceless YouTube channels, which was made possible due to AI tools.

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