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Re:I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise ... by digitalions on Thursday June 26, 2025 @01:26PM (#44389391)
The blog is written by real people. So do the techniques. I'm just a bad designer so I decided to generate the pictures. But actually I have diagnosed ADHD myself and all the techniques are all I've collected all my life.
Re:I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise ... by bubblemoth on Thursday June 26, 2025 @01:51PM (#44389656)
I opened the first blog post and I’m fairly certain most of this post is generated by AI.

I’m not trying to be mean, but it makes it difficult to trust any content on this site.

Re:I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise ... by 56544562 on Thursday June 26, 2025 @02:40PM (#44390086)
It makes it impossible. The content gives off the feeling that it will "take" and grab more than it will "give" and release.

ADHD, to me, always, even before the diagnosis, felt like a valve that doesn't open for no reason and due to the build up pressure, some other valve with different "filters" releases whatever mixture of thoughts and actions to compensate.

Children's sugar-induced behavioral roller coasters have a similar characteristic. And this website looks like too much candy without there being any candy.

Re:I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise ... by taco_emoji on Thursday June 26, 2025 @03:31PM (#44390500)
> The blog is written by real people

Sorry, I don't believe you. The way that the initial post has identical paragraph lengths with headers on every one is extremely uncanny. The prose is very dry, repetitive, often written in passive voice, and completely lacking in personality.

Re:I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise ... by hxii on Friday June 27, 2025 @05:32PM (#44400433)
All the em-dashes here solidify this being written by LLMs: https://www.adhdhelp.app/en/blog/i-thought-it-was-just-me-th...
Re:I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise ... by drakythe on Thursday June 26, 2025 @01:50PM (#44389647)
Be that as it may, it _does_ still raise questions about the content and sources. If you're a bad designer (I'm a pretty terrible artist/designer myself) then I urge you to source your images from someplace ethical. Try unsplash, or google free stock images, or go on fiverr and pay an artist who won't use AI (if you can find one? I haven't tried to user fiverr in a while)
Re:I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise ... by digitalions on Thursday June 26, 2025 @02:12PM (#44389826)
Thank you. I didn't even know people were so negative about AI pictures.
Re:I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise ... by brulard on Thursday June 26, 2025 @04:25PM (#44390951)
Not all people. HN crowd specifically