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Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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3338 points keepamovin | 2 comments | 09 Dec 25 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.436s | source
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icyfox ◴[09 Dec 25 16:52 UTC] No.46207231[source]▶
Exactly half of these HN usernames actually exist. So either there are enough people on HN that follow common conventions for Gemini to guess from a more general distribution, or Gemini has memorized some of the more popular posters. The ones that are missing:

- aphyr_bot - bio_hacker - concerned_grandson - cyborg_sec - dang_fan - edge_compute - founder_jane - glasshole2 - monad_lover - muskwatch - net_hacker - oldtimer99 - persistence_is_key - physics_lover - policy_wonk - pure_coder - qemu_fan - retro_fix - skeptic_ai - stock_watcher

Huge opportunity for someone to become the actual dang fan.

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1. QuantumNomad_ ◴[09 Dec 25 17:27 UTC] No.46207742[source]▶
ziggy42 is both a submitter of a story on the actual front page at the moment, and also in the AI generated future one.

See other comment where OP shared the prompt. They included a current copy of the front page for context. So it’s not so surprising that ziggy42 for example is in the generated page.

And for other usernames that are real but not currently on the home page, the LLM definitely has plenty occurrences of HN comments and stories in its training data so it’s not really surprising that it is able to include real usernames of people that post a lot. Their names will be occurring over and over in the training data.

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2. NooneAtAll3 ◴[09 Dec 25 21:17 UTC] No.46210781[source]▶
one more reason to doubt that it's Ai-generated