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0 pointsrunarberg5mo ago0 comments

Perhaps. But perhaps this era of AI slop leaves a foul taste in many people’s mouth. I don‘t know the reputation, all I see is somebody who felt the need to AI generate a picture and post it on HN. This is slop, and I personally get bad vibes from people who post AI generated slop, which leaves me with all sorts of assumptions about their character.

To clarify, they are here to have fun, they liked the joke about cow-ork (which I did too, it was a good joke), and they had an idea on how to build up on that joke. But instead of putting in a minor effort (like 5 min in Inkscape) they write a one sentence prompt to nano-banana and think everybody will love it. Personally I don’t.

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vita77777775mo ago· 1 in thread

This really is unnecessarily harsh. As someone who's been reading Simon's blog for years and getting a lot of value from his insights and open source work, I'm sad to see such a snap dismissive judgement.

"all sorts of assumptions about [someone's] character" based on one post might not be a smart strategy in life.

brazukadev5mo ago

I'd say is necessarily harsh. It is not as if Simon's opinions on AI were really better than others here that are as technical as his.

He is prolific, and being at the top of every HN thread is what makes him look like a reference but there are other 50+ people talking interesting things about AI that are not getting the deserved attention because every top AI thread we are discussing a pelican riding a bike.

simonw5mo ago

If you can draw a cow and an ork on top of an Anthropic logo with five minutes in Inkscape in a way that clearly captures this particular joke then my hat is off to you.

I'm all in on LLMs for code and data extraction.

I never use them to write text for my own comments on forums so social media or my various personal blogs - those represent my own opinions and need to be in my own words.

I've recently started using them for some pieces of code documentation where there is little value to having a perspective or point of view.

My use of image generation models is exclusively for jokes, and this was a really good joke.

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