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UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist
- SkyeCA 10mo agoWhy did the original get flagged? Edit: On a second look the list is kind of weird. I'd love to block AI stuff but the blocklist is far, far too broad.
- elcapitan 10mo agoYeah I hoped it would blacklist all those spammy autogenerated SEO sites from search results, but it looks like a vendetta with anything AI or machine learning in general.
- HelloUsername 10mo agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39771742 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39771742
- canyp 10mo agoInteresting that the previous post was flagged. You may or may not find the list useful, but flag? Did it hurt some sensitivities?
- haupt 10mo agoIt's a so-called hot-button topic and unfortunately HN isn't quite the paragon of pragmatic technical discussion that it was in the past. C'est la vie.
- teruakohatu 10mo agoIt is an unusual list. Along with a list an AI websites it also blocks a handful of instagram, X and Pinterest profiles. It also blocks a number of specific products on Amazon, such as a colouring book that presumably was generated with AI. This kind of reminds me Steam where indie devs need to exclaim loudly that they are not using AI, otherwise they face backlash. Meanwhile a significant percentage of devs are using GenAI for better tab completion, better search or generating tests. All things that do not impact the end user experience negatively.
- ares623 10mo agoI think the backlash comes from all the "AI-driven" layoffs that absolutely impact the end users negatively.
- dexwiz 10mo agoI think AI as a tool versus AI as a product are different. Even in coding you can see it with tab completion/agents v vibe coding. It's a spectrum and people are trying to find their personal divider on it. Additionally there are those out there that decry anything involving AI as heresy. (no thinking machines!)
- latexr 10mo ago> Additionally there are those out there that decry anything involving AI as heresy. (no thinking machines!) I don’t think anyone decrying the current crop of “AI” is against “thinking machines”. We’re not there yet, LLMs don’t think, despite the marketing.
- WA 10mo agoAnd they don’t reason. They do prompt smoothing.
- machinationu 10mo agoLLMs don't think, and planes don't fly.
- mmooss 10mo agoThe reactionary response against the new technology, even on HN, is pretty strong. If I ran an AI developer, I'd take it as a signal that I'm doing something right - people see how powerful our product is, and they care about it. Hate and love aren't too different; we'll have many dedicated users who will have forgotten. First they laugh at you Then they tell you it violates the orthodoxy Then they think they knew it all along
- machinationu 10mo agoAs PG would say, the best startups are for ideas which are hated, because you'll have no competition.
- muvlon 10mo agoBut that's plainly wrong. Anything you try to do with AI right now will have a ton of competition.
- Barrin92 10mo ago>the best startups are for ideas which are hated yes and so are the worst, and the problem is 95% of ideas that sound stupid aren't stupid and genius, but just stupid. As Peter Thiel used to say, it's not enough to be a contrarian, that's easy, you need to be contrarian and correct.
- dangus 10mo agoRight, and let’s not forget that the VC game that YC plays in assumes that the vast majority of their ventures will fail. It’s way more exploitative than it gets credit for, even those who criticize VC firms aren’t verbalizing the vastness of the scope of the issue: Startup incubators prey on young and ambitious people’s willingness to have zero life outside of work in order to set 90% of them up to fail and make huge profits off of the 10% Airbnb-type success stories. These VC firms have money but no talent or time of their own so they basically steal it from founders in exchange for a Hollywood or pro sports-style superstar pipe dream where most are statistically guaranteed to fail, and even those who succeed don’t keep the majority of the fruits of their labor. These failed startup founders end up with skills that are supposedly transferable to future ventures or what have you, but I bet if someone actually tracked down a lot of these people they might find a lot of sob stories of early stage founders who ended up burning out of their early career and having the whole startup founder experience representing a net negative in their lives.
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- GaryBluto 10mo agoSurprisingly neurotic files full of strange comments and odd blocking choices[1]. Feels very much like the pet project of a few wannabe activist teenagers in a Discord chatroom with too much time on their hands. [1] Numerous individual pages on places like digital storefronts and social media sites appear in the blocklist. Do the people behind this think they can create a list of every single AI-adjacent thing on the entire internet? 99% of the "main" list entries would be made redundant by simply blocking all .ai domains.
- SirSavary 10mo ago> Surprisingly neurotic files full of strange comments 1. Have you looked at block lists before? 2. Do you have a specific example of what in these blocklists is strange/neurotic? I swear I've skimmed all of them a few times now and although I won't be using them, I'm struggling to understand what's odd about them.
- DetectDefect 10mo agoThis reminds me of the final scene in The Conversation, when Caul sits alone in his desconstructed apartment after being convinced he is being eavesdropped - a victim of his own paranoia.
- tucnak 10mo agoI'm glad somebody arranged all these niche websites I had never heard about, in a list. Will be fun to visit them all sometime.