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sodacanner commented on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model blog.google/innovation-an... · Posted by u/davidbarker

sosodev · 18 days ago

I think you're under-estimating how much personal taste applies in that industry. Yes, there's a lot of free content but it's often low quality and/or difficult to find for a particular niche. The OF pages, and other paid sites, are curated collections of high quality stuff that can satisfy particular cravings repeatedly with minimal effort.

A big part of it also the feeling of "connection" with the creator via messages and what not, but that too can be replicated (arguably better) by AI. In fact, a lot of those messages are already being generated haha.

sodacanner · 18 days ago

I was mostly hinting towards the 'connection' part of it, yes - I think that's really where the money is made more than anything else. That's the part that'll start killing the industry once some company tunes it in.

sodacanner commented on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model blog.google/innovation-an... · Posted by u/davidbarker

whynotmaybe · 18 days ago

>fake OF models

Soon many real OF models will be out of job when everyone will be able to produce content to their personal taste from a few prompts.

sodacanner · 18 days ago

People already have access to every form of niche pornography they could dare to imagine (for absolutely free!), I really doubt that 'personal taste' is the part that makes OF models their money. They'll be fine.

sodacanner commented on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes marginalia.nu/weird-ai-cr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

mrandish · 19 days ago

Prior to the rise of LLM-written posts and the natural reaction of hair-trigger suspicion, I used to em and en dash fairly often in posts on HN. No reason really other than being a bit of a typography geek who happens to have always used dashes in casual writing instead of semicolons. So when I was setting up a modifier-key keyboard layer with AHK many years ago I put the em dash on modifier+dash just because I could - which made it easy.

Now someone may search old posts without a time cutoff and assume I'm an LLM. That combined with the fact I sometimes write longer posts and naturally default to pretty good punctuation, spelling and grammar, is basically a perfect storm of traits. I've already had posts accused twice in the past year of being an LLM.

Kind of sad some random quirk of LLM training caused a fun little typography thing I did just for myself (assuming no one else would even notice) to become something negative.

sodacanner · 19 days ago

It really is unfortunate that such a fun piece of punctuation has been effectively gutted. This isn't even really limited to just the em-dash, but I don't know if there's another example of a corporation (or set of them) having such a massive impact on grammar and writing as OpenAI and their ilk have.

Entire sentence structures have been effectively blacklisted from use. It's repulsive.

sodacanner commented on Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions zsweep.com... · Posted by u/oug-t

sodacanner · 2 months ago

Very useful as someone who's trying to use Vim motions more often, thanks!