Readit NewsRaising the quality bar would likely cut down on quantity as a side effect, and that would be a nice solution. One idea that a user proposed is a review queue where experienced HN users would help new Show HN submitters craft their posts to be more interesting and fit HN's conventions more.
Meaning you would have to demonstrate that you had or were willing to contribute to the HN community before just promoting your own stuff.
It seems that there is a constant motive to view any decision made by any big AI company on this forum at best with extreme cynicism and at worse virulent hatred. It seems unwise for a forum focused on technology and building the future to be so opposed to the companies doing the most to advance the most rapidly evolving technological domain at the moment.
Big tech (not just AI companies) have been viewed with some degree of suspicion ever since Google's mantra of "Don't be evil" became a meme over a decade ago.
Regardless of where you stand on the concept of copyright law, it is an indisputable fact that in order for these companies to get to where they are today - they deliberately HOOVERED up terabytes of copyrighted materials without the consent or even knowledge of the original authors.
- in X Hours
- With no knowledge
- no code
- AI, Sonnet, GPT
This is what happens when the barrier to writing applications is zero, and the levee hasn't even BEGUN to breach yet.
EDIT: I keep a piece of black electric tape over any of my notebook's webcams.
Talk about a captive audience rife for exploitation.
I've even used ChatGPT's zero shot to do some editorial clean-ups with the prompt:
I am going to provide paragraphs of text in quotation marks that may contain spelling errors, grammatical issues, continuity errors, structural problems, etc. I would like you to produce a revised version with all of the above issues fixed. Do not begin until I provide text enclosed in quotation marks.