←back to thread

Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

469 points bookofjoe | 4 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.976s | source

I would very much like to enjoy HN the way I did years ago, as a place where I'd discover things that I never otherwise would have come across.

The increasing AI/LLM domination of the site has made it much less appealing to me.

1. gosub100 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:01 UTC] No.44571863[source]▶
No, I have zero interest in LLM and ignoring the posts has worked fine for me. The political posts are causing more damage IMO. There is also a "hide" button if you keep seeing a lingering high activity post.
replies(1): >>44571972 #
2. dylan604 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:10 UTC] No.44571972[source]▶
But finding out that LLMs are used to push the political posts in such obvious ways yet people are still falling for it is a somewhat interesting topic. Regardless whether that just pushes your bias towards LLMs == bad or tweaks you to spin up your own LLM to combat by searching/detecting/posting the slop. Burying your head in the sand and ignoring all of it is not good either.
replies(2): >>44575070 #>>44576048 #
3. zahlman ◴[15 Jul 25 19:44 UTC] No.44575070[source]▶
> LLMs are used to push the political posts in such obvious ways

Most of "the political posts" seem to happen because someone shares a news article and everyone else uses it as an excuse to discuss the general topic (or at least something that gets general agreement as being the topic). I'm not really clear on how LLMs get involved there.

4. gosub100 ◴[15 Jul 25 21:35 UTC] No.44576048[source]▶
I would absolutely click on an article about the detection of AI and how to get rid of fake accounts. Or how AI is being used to scam people. But I couldn't care less about turdF1nger.6i and it's 3.4b paramters.