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Death by AI

(davebarry.substack.com)
583 points ano-ther | 7 comments | 19 Jul 25 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.629s | source | bottom
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wkjagt ◴[20 Jul 25 11:34 UTC] No.44624160[source]▶
I love his writing, and this wonderful story illustrates how tired I am of anything AI. I wish there was a way to just block it all, similar to how PiHole blocks ads. I miss the pre-AI (and pre-"social"-network, and pre-advertising-company-owned) internet so much.
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1. 7moritz7 ◴[20 Jul 25 11:38 UTC] No.44624194[source]▶
HN is a social network
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2. cwillu ◴[20 Jul 25 11:43 UTC] No.44624232[source]▶
Playboy circa 1980 is pornography, and yet it's not the same pornography as pornhub circa 2020
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3. 7moritz7 ◴[20 Jul 25 11:53 UTC] No.44624297[source]▶
Fair point, although "pre-social-media" would also be pre-HN. But I get what you mean
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4. wkjagt ◴[20 Jul 25 12:00 UTC] No.44624337[source]▶
I have nothing against networks that are actually social. I hate the ones that are only social in name, but are actually just a way to serve ads to people, and are filled with low quality (often AI generated) content. That's why I put quotation marks around social. Maybe I should have said "so-called-social-networks", but I thought it was commonly understood.
5. throwaway2037 ◴[20 Jul 25 12:30 UTC] No.44624565{3}[source]▶
I think pre-HN would be like newsgroups... or, gasp, even dial-up bulliten boards.
6. probably_wrong ◴[20 Jul 25 14:56 UTC] No.44625769[source]▶
I want to disagree: HN is social media, but it is not a social network.

For it to be a social network there should be a way for me to indicate that I want to hear either more or less of you specifically, and yet HN is specifically designed to be more about ideas than about people.

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7. wkjagt ◴[21 Jul 25 10:43 UTC] No.44633663[source]▶
Excellent point. I've never made the distinction really, but you're right. There's no relationship building here, just sharing and commenting.