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1160 points kafked | 7 comments | 13 Sep 25 12:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.891s | source | bottom
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kafked ◴[13 Sep 25 13:56 UTC] No.45232112[source]▶
Hey! Honestly didn't expect this to hit the HN top, I've already maxed out all my token limits! If you enjoyed wasting time here, there's a Buy Me A Coffee link in the footer. Thanks for the incredible response! This is why I really love building weird useless stuff for the internet.

UPD: You guys are incredibly creative! 15000 products generated and counting. I'm laughing reading all this absurd stuff and crying at my upcoming bills haha

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tombert ◴[14 Sep 25 16:10 UTC] No.45240935[source]▶
I'm having a lot of fun with this. I threw you a few bucks to cover my usage a few times over.

ETA:

I would encourage anyone here to throw a buck or two towards the creator. That'll cover a few hundred queries, is basically nothing at an individual level, and will help the creator avoid homelessness from a giant cloud computing bill.

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1. bcrl ◴[14 Sep 25 23:12 UTC] No.45244259[source]▶
I am disappointed that the top voted comments are so supportive towards yet more generation of AI slop. Sites like this are making accurate search results by people for real world products that exist harder to get in front of the eyeballs that are looking for them. Sure, you might get a few minutes of lolz, but the misinformation seeps into search engines and then product reviews. It's the toxic waste that keeps on giving limited only by the cost of token streams.
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2. gridspy ◴[15 Sep 25 03:46 UTC] No.45245910[source]▶
Search engines only (well, mostly) trust pages with inbound links. Given all this crap has no inbound links from the rest of the internet it should be harmless.

Well, until the endless "look at this item I made" posts show up on Reddit and other sites.

3. kafked ◴[15 Sep 25 05:17 UTC] No.45246339[source]▶
You'll be surprised how quickly Google determined the usefulness of the site and practically removed it from the search results, and it was absolutely right to do so
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4. singlepaynews ◴[15 Sep 25 05:31 UTC] No.45246410[source]▶
Even assuming this is true, I do not, and will never, care.

The machine is a collection of well organized rocks over which electrons pass. I am a human.

Google is a global corporation that turns cyberstalking into money. I am a human.

Lolz are the highest aspiration available to computers. God forbid I ever lost sight of that.

5. monegator ◴[15 Sep 25 10:52 UTC] No.45248232[source]▶
I can assure you one hundred percent, the only thing i ever used "AI" for was for stupid stuff like this: Dall-E to generate low quality absurd images from the most random prompts was my favourite.

This is the complete opposite of AI Slop: A website that turns absurd queries into unbelievable producs, all for the lulz. Well done to the author

6. efilife ◴[15 Sep 25 12:01 UTC] No.45248651[source]▶
it's the first result for "anycrap shop" in google and ddg
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7. kafked ◴[15 Sep 25 12:14 UTC] No.45248745{3}[source]▶
I mean, when the site first came out, Google started to show product pages and impressions started to grow, but after a couple of weeks they dropped completely to zero and the pages were excluded from search index, and I don't see anything changing, only some pages got into the index, mainly because of links referring to the site. Well, there are almost 100k products here now and I hope this collective unconscious never gets into search results