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Doesn't the flag button serve that purpose?
by jgrahamc 4mo ago
Doesn't the flag button serve that purpose?
- BugsJustFindMe 4mo agoI don't think it does exactly. I edited to clarify.
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- leephillips 4mo agoOf course it does. If it’s slop it should be flagged (I say this after reading the edited submission). In the meantime you can avoid at least some of the slop by using https://hn-ai.org/ https://hn-ai.org/ or one of the other anti-slop extensions or alternative sites.
- satvikpendem 4mo agoIt doesn't seem to work all that well, I still see posts about AI. Maybe it should read the text content then use a classifier to see whether it's AI related or not, basic LLMs work pretty well at that and you honestly could just use a classical AI classifier like Naive Bayes filter too.
- leephillips 4mo agoYes, there are still plenty of AI stories getting past my filter. It’s just a regex on the titles.
- cinntaile 4mo agoYou should use an LLM.
- leephillips 4mo agoJoking or not, in fact neural networks as classifiers are obviously useful: detecting cancer in medical images, for example. And that approach would, I’m sure, work better here than my crude regex. But this use of AI is distinct from its use as a giant plagiariser and slop generator. What I and others are tired of seeing are endless stories about vibe coded games and whatnot.