Re:Show HN: Detective Stories -Lateral thinking detective ga...
by emurph55 on Friday February 14, 2025 @12:45AM
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Any stories that have been written by AI are marked as such (they are categorized as user submission stories where the author is credited as the AI model). Interestingly the lowest ranked story on the site is one of those, although that was created with an older model. I had never thought of the site as being an "AI product" personally. I just wanted an excuse to play around with web sockets initially, but if I can improve the AI player maybe it will eventually go more in that direction.
Which is to say, that they're all extremely shop-worn cliches. I think this shows the false allure of the AI product. The creator's low standards for content take what could be something interesting and a perfectly nice looking site and turns it into something which only superficially appears to be interesting but has no value.
I've noticed this a lot with AI-based products: even their creators don't find the experience good, but they are imagining there exists an audience which doesn't value graphics and doesn't value the written word.