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"Ironically, this project was built with AI coding and uses AI to filter out articles about AI. Go figure."

wolvoleo 7d ago
Well it is the best way to do a 'fuzzy' filter like that. Rather than trying frantically to chase keywords. I don't think anyone considers AI to be something useless. It sure has its uses, I use it a lot to help with research. But it is sometimes shoehorned into things it doesn't belong, or its capabilities overblown for marketing. I think that's what people object to.
- noir_lord 7d ago
  That and the sheer volume drowns out everything else. The S/N ratio entirely depends on whether you care about AI and I don't not really.
  - dylan604 7d ago
    Man, that last sentence is ambiguous as hell. I'm not sure if you do or do not care.
    - noir_lord 7d ago
      Yeah I didn't word that well at all, at least you know it wasn't an LLM. I meant I don't really care, I keep half an eye on what they are up to (have to live in the same world as them) but I'm not really interested in it at all beyond playing with some local models, the constant onslaught of it has just become tiresome, then I got to YT to watch my usual history content which mentions something I didn't know about so I do a search to see if there is a video on that and that is wall to wall AI slop and that annoys me so I go to do something else, do a search and the results are slop if the AI doesn't try and answer it for me first. It just feels like if you want to do anything on-line you get force fed slop whether you want it or not and it's damn hard to filter it, can't even block channels on YT without an extension.
- kentm 7d ago
  This is where I’m at. I find AI to be useful but there’s a tendency for it to suck the oxygen out of the room. Other things still matter. Edit: I'll also note that while its nice to see real novel AI news I find a lot of it is extremely marginal value. I mentally associate most discussion with debating what color of marker to use when marking the edge of your CDs to improve the sound.
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- econ 7d ago
  In the old days we had this thing called a redaction. It was like a dungeon master vs playing the same hardcoded level again and again. Had one suggested automating it back then even the greatest optimist wouldn't see how you replace [say] Stephen King with a calculator but here we are - true believers.
esjeon 7d ago
An AI slop to filter out AI slops -- the pinnacle of AI. Sadly this would not end just as a joke. We'll be doing this forever from now on.
- noir_lord 7d ago
  Humans becoming the adversarial network to the AI is indeed a Black Mirror episode worthy outcome.

Well it is the best way to do a 'fuzzy' filter like that. Rather than trying frantically to chase keywords. I don't think anyone considers AI to be something useless. It sure has its uses, I use it a lot to help with research. But it is sometimes shoehorned into things it doesn't belong, or its capabilities overblown for marketing. I think that's what people object to.

noir_lord 7d ago
That and the sheer volume drowns out everything else. The S/N ratio entirely depends on whether you care about AI and I don't not really.
- dylan604 7d ago
  Man, that last sentence is ambiguous as hell. I'm not sure if you do or do not care.
  - noir_lord 7d ago
    Yeah I didn't word that well at all, at least you know it wasn't an LLM. I meant I don't really care, I keep half an eye on what they are up to (have to live in the same world as them) but I'm not really interested in it at all beyond playing with some local models, the constant onslaught of it has just become tiresome, then I got to YT to watch my usual history content which mentions something I didn't know about so I do a search to see if there is a video on that and that is wall to wall AI slop and that annoys me so I go to do something else, do a search and the results are slop if the AI doesn't try and answer it for me first. It just feels like if you want to do anything on-line you get force fed slop whether you want it or not and it's damn hard to filter it, can't even block channels on YT without an extension.
kentm 7d ago
This is where I’m at. I find AI to be useful but there’s a tendency for it to suck the oxygen out of the room. Other things still matter. Edit: I'll also note that while its nice to see real novel AI news I find a lot of it is extremely marginal value. I mentally associate most discussion with debating what color of marker to use when marking the edge of your CDs to improve the sound.
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econ 7d ago
In the old days we had this thing called a redaction. It was like a dungeon master vs playing the same hardcoded level again and again. Had one suggested automating it back then even the greatest optimist wouldn't see how you replace [say] Stephen King with a calculator but here we are - true believers.

esjeon 7d ago

An AI slop to filter out AI slops -- the pinnacle of AI. Sadly this would not end just as a joke. We'll be doing this forever from now on.

noir_lord 7d ago
Humans becoming the adversarial network to the AI is indeed a Black Mirror episode worthy outcome.