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...Hacker News could use some more cute animal pictures, though.
by minimaxir 8mo ago
...Hacker News could use some more cute animal pictures, though.
- latchkey 8mo agoInterestingly, their CSP policies forbid even an extension from inserting an img tag.
- toomuchtodo 8mo agoStrong opinions strongly held.
- dev_l1x_be 8mo agoComing to LISP in 2038, just the right time when we hit the 2038 bug.
- thomassmith65 8mo agoOne problem with cute animal pictures is that they appeal to almost everyone, including people who are incapable, for whatever reason, of posting well-reasoned, interesting, respectful comments. The fact that HN is a little dry makes it less appealing to dumbasses. At any rate, it's too late. The era of organic 'cute animal' content on the internet is dead. AI slop has killed it.
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- shagie 8mo ago(I was replying to a now deleted response) > Slop has an upside? Not exactly. Rather its is that places where one does want to find pictures of people's cute cats and dogs is now having additional moderation / administration burdens to try to keep the AI generated content out of those places. It's not a "cute pictures of cats overrunning some place" but rather "even in the places where it was appropriate to post pictures of one's pets in #mypets or /r/cuteCatPics because such pictures are appropriate there (so they don't overrun other places), now people are starting fights over AI generated content." An example that I recently encountered was someone who did an AI replacement of a cat that was "loafing" of a loaf of bread that looked like a cat. The cat picture would have been fine (with a dozen "aww" and "cute" comments in reply)... the AI cat loaf picture required moderation actions and some comment defusing over the use of AI.
- f38 8mo agoAI generated "cutest possible animal" (and "make it cuter") might be mildly interesting.
- dang 8mo agoComing up on 20 years and we clearly went too far the other way.