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How do you know its AI? Who cares, sounds fine too me.

by nullbyte808 7mo ago

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worthless-trash 7mo ago
We do mate, we do.
apsurd 7mo ago
AI tends to be a buzz kill on products because it sends the signal "i can't be bothered to craft this deliberately." So why then should we bother to interact with the product deliberately. Around here most know how hard and time consuming it is to ship a production grade experience. AI helps a ton. it's not "wrong" per say, but it undeniably leaves an odor.
- Muhammad523 6mo ago
  Btw, this project seems to be a solution looking for a problem.
dreadnip 7mo ago
The whole website was prompted. You can tell by the overload of emoji's on the page and every section having cards with hover effects. It's classic LLM design.
- mahirhiro 7mo ago
  Funnily enough, while I definitely prompted but finding other website designs I liked and color schemes. I specifically wanted the hover effects because I love quirky animations. On the garden in the app try holding on a flower/ seed or click on a butterfly and enjoy the Easter egg ;)
dolebirchwood 7mo ago
The avatars in the "testimonials" are all fakes by pravatar.cc, so take that into consideration. The site is bull shit.
- dolebirchwood 7mo ago
  I revisited the site and noticed that the testimonials section is now deleted. What a punk. Please do not engage with this fraudulent clown-show of an app.
  - mahirhiro 7mo ago
    Yep, that was actually a placeholder (eventually with real people, and now soon with 500 downloads!) I didn’t comment out properly hence what someone else pointed out with the html commenting. Mistakes happen and I agree I should do a better job to proof read :)
    - Muhammad523 6mo ago
      I truly don't think it's possible for new software to have testimonials... especially good ones.
  - Muhammad523 6mo ago
    Deleted? Well, the Wayback Machine comes to rescue. https://web.archive.org/web/20260305052854/https://poppy-connection-keeper.netlify.app/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260305052854/https://poppy-con...
biofox 7mo ago
"Privacy isn't a feature — it's the foundation." "No feed, no doomscrolling — just intention." "Not your whole address book — just the ones you'd hate to lose touch with" "You care deeply—you're just terrible at follow-through." "You care deeply—your ADHD brain just doesn't..."
- rigrassm 7mo ago
  "You care deeply—your ADHD brain just doesn't..." Well shit, that solves everything! What a revelation -_-
- gumboshoes 7mo ago
  Even the word "intentional" alone is an AI tell.
  - accrual 7mo ago
    "Quietly" is another watermark word I've noticed lately (though not in TFA to be clear).
lelanthran 7mo ago
Well, if someone can't bother to write something, why should anyone bother to read it?
- red-iron-pine 7mo ago
  that was one of the big reasons I dropped FB and Insta. Low effort interactions just aren't worth it. IF it's not worth writing at least 3 sentences chances are I don't care - and won't ever care. Like yeah it's cool to see what some guy I knew in high school is up to, but ultimately that connection ain't making my life better. HN is an exception in the signal to noise ratio is far higher than a lot of other social media - though the bots are hitting it hard these days.
- goodmythical 7mo ago
  That's awfully able-ist isn't it? How do you know that the author is capable of communicating fluently in english? What if it were the case the the author was so excited about sharing a project but didn't know how to properly explained it and so took the extra effort to learn how to get a piece of software to explain it for them? Would that then satisfy your requirement that the human behind the project has done enough work to earn your interest?
  - BobaFloutist 7mo ago
    But AI provides the illusion of communication. Since the AI has no direct access to the user's brain, and has to go off the words they provide, if we're assuming that the person isn't capable generating words that accurately communicate their thoughts, the AI is getting all its information from the same flawed words we'd have access to if they didn't use AI, but destroying any signal encoded in the specific mistakes or choices they've made in its process of shaping their thoughts into something more polished. AIs don't violate entropy, and can't create information from nothing. They can interpret, and expand, and maybe, just maybe, tease out meaning that a human would have missed. But the more sensitively they're tuned to pick up on small nuances, they more likely they're going to interpret a pattern that isn't there, and the more they're tuned to avoid over-interpretation, the more likely they are to miss something that is there, the same as how a human can aim to interpret something with high or low context. The difference is, by filtering it through an AI, you're taking that capability out of other people's hands, you're (often intentionally) flattening and damaging signals people usually use to choose how to distribute their attention (often with the cry of "But it's not fair that people want to spend their attention on things that I'm not good at, I have to use AI to convince people to look at my work that they would prefer not to!!"), and when you do that without acknowledging the use of AI, it feels a lot like you don't care about any negative effects your actions have on the existing ecosystems of human creativity and communication, and you're going to get an appropriately hostile response.

How do you know its AI? Who cares, sounds fine too me.

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worthless-trash 7mo ago

We do mate, we do.

apsurd 7mo ago

AI tends to be a buzz kill on products because it sends the signal "i can't be bothered to craft this deliberately." So why then should we bother to interact with the product deliberately. Around here most know how hard and time consuming it is to ship a production grade experience. AI helps a ton. it's not "wrong" per say, but it undeniably leaves an odor.

Muhammad523 6mo ago
Btw, this project seems to be a solution looking for a problem.

dreadnip 7mo ago

The whole website was prompted. You can tell by the overload of emoji's on the page and every section having cards with hover effects. It's classic LLM design.

mahirhiro 7mo ago
Funnily enough, while I definitely prompted but finding other website designs I liked and color schemes. I specifically wanted the hover effects because I love quirky animations. On the garden in the app try holding on a flower/ seed or click on a butterfly and enjoy the Easter egg ;)

dolebirchwood 7mo ago

The avatars in the "testimonials" are all fakes by pravatar.cc, so take that into consideration. The site is bull shit.

dolebirchwood 7mo ago
I revisited the site and noticed that the testimonials section is now deleted. What a punk. Please do not engage with this fraudulent clown-show of an app.
- mahirhiro 7mo ago
  Yep, that was actually a placeholder (eventually with real people, and now soon with 500 downloads!) I didn’t comment out properly hence what someone else pointed out with the html commenting. Mistakes happen and I agree I should do a better job to proof read :)
  - Muhammad523 6mo ago
    I truly don't think it's possible for new software to have testimonials... especially good ones.
- Muhammad523 6mo ago
  Deleted? Well, the Wayback Machine comes to rescue. https://web.archive.org/web/20260305052854/https://poppy-connection-keeper.netlify.app/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260305052854/https://poppy-con...

biofox 7mo ago

"Privacy isn't a feature — it's the foundation." "No feed, no doomscrolling — just intention." "Not your whole address book — just the ones you'd hate to lose touch with" "You care deeply—you're just terrible at follow-through." "You care deeply—your ADHD brain just doesn't..."

rigrassm 7mo ago
"You care deeply—your ADHD brain just doesn't..." Well shit, that solves everything! What a revelation -_-
gumboshoes 7mo ago
Even the word "intentional" alone is an AI tell.
- accrual 7mo ago
  "Quietly" is another watermark word I've noticed lately (though not in TFA to be clear).

lelanthran 7mo ago

Well, if someone can't bother to write something, why should anyone bother to read it?

red-iron-pine 7mo ago
that was one of the big reasons I dropped FB and Insta. Low effort interactions just aren't worth it. IF it's not worth writing at least 3 sentences chances are I don't care - and won't ever care. Like yeah it's cool to see what some guy I knew in high school is up to, but ultimately that connection ain't making my life better. HN is an exception in the signal to noise ratio is far higher than a lot of other social media - though the bots are hitting it hard these days.
goodmythical 7mo ago
That's awfully able-ist isn't it? How do you know that the author is capable of communicating fluently in english? What if it were the case the the author was so excited about sharing a project but didn't know how to properly explained it and so took the extra effort to learn how to get a piece of software to explain it for them? Would that then satisfy your requirement that the human behind the project has done enough work to earn your interest?
- BobaFloutist 7mo ago
  But AI provides the illusion of communication. Since the AI has no direct access to the user's brain, and has to go off the words they provide, if we're assuming that the person isn't capable generating words that accurately communicate their thoughts, the AI is getting all its information from the same flawed words we'd have access to if they didn't use AI, but destroying any signal encoded in the specific mistakes or choices they've made in its process of shaping their thoughts into something more polished. AIs don't violate entropy, and can't create information from nothing. They can interpret, and expand, and maybe, just maybe, tease out meaning that a human would have missed. But the more sensitively they're tuned to pick up on small nuances, they more likely they're going to interpret a pattern that isn't there, and the more they're tuned to avoid over-interpretation, the more likely they are to miss something that is there, the same as how a human can aim to interpret something with high or low context. The difference is, by filtering it through an AI, you're taking that capability out of other people's hands, you're (often intentionally) flattening and damaging signals people usually use to choose how to distribute their attention (often with the cry of "But it's not fair that people want to spend their attention on things that I'm not good at, I have to use AI to convince people to look at my work that they would prefer not to!!"), and when you do that without acknowledging the use of AI, it feels a lot like you don't care about any negative effects your actions have on the existing ecosystems of human creativity and communication, and you're going to get an appropriately hostile response.