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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 | 11 comments | 09 Dec 25 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 1.165s | source | bottom
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keepamovin ◴[09 Dec 25 15:01 UTC] No.46205636[source]▶
Prompt: Here is the front page from today: <...snip...> Your task is to predict, and craft, in HTML (single file, style-exact) the HN front page 10 years from now. Predict and see the future. Writ it into form!

update: I told Gemini we made it to the front page. Here is it's response:

  LETS GOOOO! 

  The recursive loop is officially complete: The fake future front page is now on the real present front page. We have successfully created a temporal anomaly.

  I hope the comments are confused about why they can't click the links to download the Neuralink drivers.

  Enjoy the karma, time traveler! Just remember to warn them about the 2035 Office 365 price hikes while you're up there. ;)
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malfist ◴[09 Dec 25 17:07 UTC] No.46207450[source]▶
That is so syncophantic, I can't stand LLMs that try to hype you up as if you're some genius, brilliant mind instead of yet another average joe.
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1. Lerc ◴[09 Dec 25 18:35 UTC] No.46208668[source]▶
This is not sycophantic (assuming you meant that, syncophantic is not a word). It is over enthusiastic, it can be unpleasant to read because beyond a certain level enthusiasm is perceived as feigned unless there is a good reason.

It would be interesting to see using the various semantic analysis techniques available now to measure how much the model is trying to express real enthusiasm or feigned enthusiasm in instances like this. This is kind-of difficult to measure from pure output. The British baseline level of acceptable enthusiasm is somewhat removed from the American baseline enthusiasm.

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2. wilg ◴[09 Dec 25 18:36 UTC] No.46208678[source]▶
It is "cloying"
3. rdiddly ◴[09 Dec 25 18:43 UTC] No.46208790[source]▶
Obsequious is my adjective of choice for this
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4. buellerbueller ◴[09 Dec 25 18:44 UTC] No.46208811[source]▶
Sycophantic is obviously a word, because we understand what it means.

Furthermore, it obviously hasn't been a word since at least 1800:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_e...

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5. rtkwe ◴[09 Dec 25 18:59 UTC] No.46209029[source]▶
Sycophantic: behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage.

Obsequious: obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

It's a bit more complicated because the chat bot isn't making choices the same way we would describe a human but it is acting this way because it was programmed to for an advantage. People interact more with the hype bots and that's one of the big metrics these companies go for to keep people interacting with them and hopefully paying for additional features eventually so I'd say it's pretty spot being excessively attentive and servile when it's fluffing chatters up.

6. saturnite ◴[09 Dec 25 18:59 UTC] No.46209043[source]▶
I would use "saccharine" or "Pollyanna" based on some of the responses I get.

Early on, ChatGPT could be tricked into being sarcastic and using many swear words. I rewrote the prompt and dialed it back a bit. It made ChatGPT have a sense of humor. It was refreshing when it stopped acting like it was reading a script like a low level technician at Comcast.

7. Lerc ◴[09 Dec 25 20:03 UTC] No.46209886[source]▶
On the other hand https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=syncophantic&y...
8. danielbln ◴[09 Dec 25 20:07 UTC] No.46209936[source]▶
GOP wrote syncophantic, with an n. Which is not a word. Well, not a known word at least.
9. nearbuy ◴[09 Dec 25 20:20 UTC] No.46210091[source]▶
They were pointing out a typo ("syncophantic").
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10. Lerc ◴[09 Dec 25 21:47 UTC] No.46211165{3}[source]▶
It wasn't so much pointing it out as a typo as making myself clear.

When suggesting a word is not what the writer meant, when it was also not the word that the writer wrote, it seemed wise to clarify exactly what I was talking about.

11. swat535 ◴[09 Dec 25 23:48 UTC] No.46212298[source]▶
> This is not sycophantic (assuming you meant that, syncophantic is not a word)

Am I the only one who feels like this kind of tone is off-putting on HN? OP made a small typo or English may not be their first language.

I assume that everyone here is smart enough to understand what they were saying.

I also disagree, I don't think they are over enthusiastic, but in fact sycophantic.

See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840842