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Re:Ask HN: Is HN Dying? by winternett on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:35PM (#35188133)
Ai babble is flooding everything... A lot of companies are eagerly laying off employees to have chat GPT churn out the same tone-empty and nothing-new derivative-article content everywhere. Coupled with anti-competitive SEO tactics, bot spam, human spam, subliminally suggestive marketing, long winded CTA clickbait videos, and paid ad promotion on social media, the Internet is ripe with all sorts of annoying schemes and scams to get attention that is totally destroying all hope for effective information and communication pretty much everywhere you go online now.

I hope people will wake up and start striking against platform dictatorships and profiteering for everything, but I doubt it will happen, and I think there will simply be a lot of meltdowns everywhere and frustrated people that will eventually learn that we'll all see a lot less ads if we go back to meeting up at coffee shops, diners, and bowling alleys for our entertainment off this "scorched hellscape of a parking-meter-esque pay for being unfulfilled" Internet.

Sorry for the rant. :P

Re:Ask HN: Is HN Dying? by dang on Saturday March 18, 2023 @01:10AM (#35206303)
I'm not sure if you're talking about HN or not, but if people see AI-generated comments on HN they should flag them and let us know at [email protected]. HN is a place for humans to converse, and bots have never been allowed.
Re:Ask HN: Is HN Dying? by stuntkite on Sunday March 19, 2023 @05:51AM (#35217491)
I just had this thought that now with LLMs we are basically on the front side of something similar to space debris lock in for the global internet.