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This is categorizing with a pretty broad brush, it seems. I took a look at a random day, and the articles that are claimed to be AI are Waymo publishing a model
by seizethecheese 2mo ago
This is categorizing with a pretty broad brush, it seems. I took a look at a random day, and the articles that are claimed to be AI are Waymo publishing a model for self driving cars and a post about scams in Apple News ads.
Sure, Waymo’s model is AI and the scams in Apple News are often AI generated, but this isn't some sort of monoculture of LLM articles.
Ironically, this article could have been improved by using an LLM to categorize things and also publishing the prompt, so we could inspect what it means to “be AI”.
- dgellow 2mo agoThe article already states that distinction. It doesn’t say that everything is written by AI, the heatmap even has a legend with different colors for “article about ai” and “written by ai”
- seizethecheese 2mo agoThe articles I cite were in the “about ai” category not “written by ai”.
- shwaj 2mo agoI don't know about the article about Apple News scams, but how is an article about Waymo publishing a model for self driving cars not about AI?
- ktm5j 2mo agoYou took a look at 5 posts made on one single day and then categorized all of the other days.. seems like you're good at categorizing with a broad brush yourself. Based on my experience as a pretty heavy HN consumer, I'm with the article author.
- catchnear4321 2mo agoYou took all of one comment to categorize a person, and closed with your subjective experience. Based on my experience, this isn’t typically done for kind reasons. But what do I know, I am but one dumb monkey pushing tokens through tubes to what claim to be other monkeys but might be nothing of the sort.
- culi 2mo agoYou took a look at all of one comment of a user and categorized them as unkind. Som'n som'n broad brush bad Fwiw I think Waymo's self-driving AI model blog post and the piece about people using AI to mass produce ads on Apple News are fairly categorized. And the "50% of HN is or is about AI" tagline feels accurate enough. There is so much more to tech than artificial intelligence (for that matter, there's is so much more to AI than LLMs) but even when having discussions about those other matters it feels like AI is still discussed
- seizethecheese 2mo agoThe Waymo one definitely is AI, the original point here was that it was AI not just LLMs. The Apple News one really is about fraud and AI as the mechanism is just a sign of the times.
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- ktm5j 2mo agoIf you think I'm being unkind then I think you're abnormally sensitive.
- kekdkrjfjjwfj 2mo agoOr you may be just a bit too rude. Happens often around here—as it always tend to be in forums where people go to feel smarter and try to pose as almighty greybeards. Next time don’t frame it as close. A telltale sign of true intelligence is not making others feel dumb so that you can feel like the big kahuna. ;)
- ktm5j 2mo agowhat was rude? I was just being cheeky guys, yeesh.. yall need to lighten up.
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- seizethecheese 2mo agoThe inclusion of the Apple News story is sufficient to know that probably the classification here isn’t too tight. It’s not really against the article author to point this out, either, just trying to add color for the forum here. It’s not always us vs them.
- ktm5j 2mo agoWell what I said wasn't really against you either, I was just being cheeky.
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- busssard 2mo agoplot twist seizethecheese is a bot themselves :D jkjk
- alephnerd 2mo agoIf they are so be it. Knuckedraggers and bots act the same way. At with some bots are kinda creative.
- lovich 2mo agoI’ve always 1 indexed because there are non software engineers on here and I didn’t need to introduce the confusion that shibboleth would cause
- alephnerd 2mo agoYeah. There's nothing wrong with 1-indexing, but it's interesting to notice it go from being the norm to being something only a handful of us do now. There used to be a time when some HNers used to kvetch over not using 0-indexing and that kind of pedantry should have been cracked down.
- runarberg 2mo agoWell some of use were using R (or later Julia) and have always 1-indexed as an act of defiance... There are dozens of us... DOZENS!
- alephnerd 2mo agoPour one out for the poor saps in econometrics departments and logistics industries still using SPSS.
- calvinmorrison 2mo agodozens of us PVX programmers as well. 1- index gang