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For those only interested in the definition of the new nonsense word: > "content flippening” — an event horizon when the majority of content you choose to cons
by slowmovintarget 3y ago
For those only interested in the definition of the new nonsense word:
> "content flippening” — an event horizon when the majority of content you choose to consume is primarily AI generated/augmented rather than primarily human/manually produced
I hope it isn't contagious... the word, that is.
The proper word is threshold.
- krapp 3y agoI guess it's going to be the new "enshittification."
- dvh 3y agoIn the future the data from the pre-ai era will be treated like old steel from before the nuclear tests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
- eastbound 3y agoI’d certainly pay to have websites from pre-SEO era. In fact, I do: I buy books, recipes for example. But I hear soon books will be generated…
- htrp 3y agoI think there was a story yesterday with amazon limiting authors to 3 new book publications a day.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoThe future is now. And it sucks.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoIIRC nuclear tainted steel is less of a concern in modern times. Perhaps AI content will become so normal and people so accustomed to spotting it that today's concern will become a footnote.
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- hooverd 3y agoFlippening is a word to yeet from your lexicon.
- varelse 3y ago[dead]
- slowmovintarget 3y agoUrge to create new programming language named "yeet" rising...
- itishappy 3y agohttps://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.Yeet.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.Yeet.html https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/96374 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/96374
- shwaj 3y agoI dunno, flippening seems as cromulent as most other neologisms.
- hooverd 3y agoOk, personally, I just don't like -ening neologisms. More like crappening!
- shwaj 3y agoCrappening is likewise cromulent, although I can see why you might prefer encrapifying.
- swyx 3y agocant help but notice that HN seems to like negative neologisms ("enshittification", "crappening") than positive ones. I would hope for a more technoptimistic, or at least technoneutral, crowd here.
- dgacmu 3y agoThe term was originally used to refer to the hypothetical time when the market cap of ethereum flipped to be higher than that of Bitcoin. (It was a little annoying then too).
- swyx 3y agoyes - i want to be clear that i'm not a crypto shill or anything but I do think the term evokes a landmark change that signals the end of a previously unchallenged dominance. hence repurposing it for this. i genuinely listen to HN Recap and PG Essays every single day now and if you asked me a year ago if I'd have any AI generated podcasts as part of my daily rotation I would have laughed at you. in the meantime - the human podcasting industry is in decline. Spotify is shutting down their stuff (good riddance). NPR laid off a bunch of their people. Rogan and All-In have gone mostly political. etc etc. it is going to be hard to beat machines at staying on topic and probably mostly ad free because of how cheap and consistent they can be. seems reasonable to draw the lines out and ask when and if AI content takes over... I like thought provoking questions like that, even if, like eth > btc, it never actually comes to pass. It's a thought exercise.
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