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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:58AM (#47047026)
People will build AI 'quality detectors' to sort and filter the slop. The problem is of course it won't work very well and will drown all the human channels that are trying to curate various genres. I'm not optimistic about things not all turning into a grey sludge of similar mediocre material everywhere.
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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by joncoded on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @10:32AM (#47048570)
Exactly, and we will have those who will "game" the "detectors" like they already "game" the social media "algorithms" :\
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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by dimwiddle on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @06:30PM (#47054971)
Is there a way to have a social media platform with hand-written letters, sent with ravens? That's AI proofed... for a while at least!
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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by daheza on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @11:39PM (#47057228)
I worry that the focus on AI proofing will lead to a deanonymization of the internet. If we force every interaction to be associated with a real world id, we can kill a lot of the bots.
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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @07:31AM (#47060308)
> deanonymization of the internet

This is going to happen anyway because 'the powerful' want to track what everyone does and says. AI is going to accelerate this because now they have a much more efficient means to filter and identify the people that are doing and saying things that the powerful don't like. The powerful will also be able to get real world ID credentials for their bots if they wanted or needed them, so this will not stop the problem of bots.

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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by Eisenstein on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @12:32AM (#47057547)
I believe that a history of written work verified by stylometry will be a viable reputation system.
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