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Should HN Ban “I Asked AI to Create...” Type Submissions?

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Should HN Ban “I Asked AI to Create...” Type Submissions?

#1
Look, I'm as interested in the huge leaps forward in AI as all the rest of you techy nerds. And I read most of the stories about the technology itself. But please, for the love of $deity, can we outlaw the completely pointless "I asked AI to create..." type submissions?

Every day there are dozens of them; "I asked AI to write me a haiku...", "I asked AI to paint me a picture...", "I asked AI to help me learn coding...", "I asked AI to write me a blog post...", "I asked AI to tell me a joke...", "I asked AI to write a poem...", "I asked AI to write a short story...", "I asked AI to design a new trouser press..." etc etc et-bloody-cetera.

And, almost without exception, these submissions are of no interest whatsoever to anyone outside of the person who typed some crap into ChatGPT [or other AI] and was so proud of the outcome they decided to share it with the wider world... whether or not the wider world could give a shit or not.

Yes, we all know you can type almost any kind of prompt into an AI chatbot and get some "interesting" text or imagery in response. But after the 1000th such submission it's about as interesting as hearing that someone sent an email or installed a new app on their phone. It really is the adult equivalent of running excitedly home from primary school, clutching the crappy drawing you did in class and insisitng it get stuck to the fridge door.

Please. If you want to play with your AI chatbot, just do it quietly in the corner. The rest of us DON'T BLOODY CARE!

Examples:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=i+asked+AI

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=i asked GPT

Re: Should HN Ban “I Asked AI to Create...” Type Submissions?

#6

I assume the novelty and will wear off within a rather short amount of time and these kind of posts will be what the NFT posts were some month ago.

Let's hope so.

I have a custom uBlock Origin filter list which blocks keywords on HN, to improve the signal to noise ratio a bit. Your comment just reminded me that "NFT" was one of the terms I added a while back. Unfortunately it's trickier to do with AI or ChatGPT because I am interested in the technology. Just not in the endless crappy "Look what I drew in AI school, Mum!" examples of its usage.

Re: Should HN Ban “I Asked AI to Create...” Type Submissions?

#8
(A) HN doesn't need to ban anything, we have a nicely functioning voting system

(B) I can understand you're tired of seeing "smell my finger" AI stories, but I think its obvious that others are not, yet. Why must they go away to satisfy you? Can you not ignore these things that disinterest or annoy you, using your own facilities?

Re: Should HN Ban “I Asked AI to Create...” Type Submissions?

#9

I assume the novelty and will wear off within a rather short amount of time and these kind of posts will be what the NFT posts were some month ago.

Let's hope so. I have a custom uBlock Origin filter list which blocks keywords on HN, to improve the signal to noise ratio a bit. Your comment just reminded me that "NFT" was one of the terms I added a while back. Unfortunately it's trickier to do with AI or ChatGPT because I am interested in the technology. Just not in the endless crappy "Look what I drew in AI school, Mum!" examples of its usage.

I like this approach much more than a blanket ban.

Speaking as someone else tired of the noise but still completely aware of the rule of unintended consequences.

Re: Should HN Ban “I Asked AI to Create...” Type Submissions?

#10

(A) HN doesn't need to ban anything, we have a nicely functioning voting system (B) I can understand you're tired of seeing "smell my finger" AI stories, but I think its obvious that others are not, yet. Why must they go away to satisfy you? Can you not ignore these things that disinterest or annoy you, using your own facilities?

  >Can you not ignore these things that disinterest or annoy you, using your own facilities? 
See my reply to fabianholzer below, for why these type of submissions are harder to ignore or filter out.
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