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Re:Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one by bigtechennui on Monday March 24, 2025 @09:00AM (#43460574)
Adding a field that AI can generate cheaply sounds like a way to INCREASE AI spam
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Re:Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one by johnnyanmac on Monday March 24, 2025 @10:45AM (#43461704)
cheap is part of the factor here. Pictures aren't expensive to generate, but are a magnitude more expensive than generating a bunch of text. Meanwhile, pictures are trivial for humans to verify against a simple search.
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Re:Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one by blueflow on Monday March 24, 2025 @05:35PM (#43465631)
> Meanwhile, pictures are trivial for humans to verify against a simple search

The majority of people do not have a picture of them on the Internet.

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