AI Seinfeld was the peak of AI-generated content. It will never happen again

A lot of it is not mine to share, I was basically a CXO hire brought in by Skyler Hartle and Brian Habersberger who created it* to work with them on assessing the viability of the product they'd built behind the scenes, as a business, and it's levels of scale etc. Skyler and Brian are amazing genius level dudes (and also HN users!). I know the whole story end to end, pretty much exactly as it unfolded, it's not really anything like this blog post thinks it is, to the point I don't think I even agree with the author. Again: I'm sorry but much of it is not mine to share, for a great many reasons.

*As a side project, over years, and years, before it took off, "over night", there is a lot of tech unmentioned they built totally unrelated to LLMs etc, much of it still worth, not mentioning, because it's "cutting edge" still even today)

My dude, you're the one who wrote this post (presumably) so you're the one who should be reaching out to the relevant parties to seek out information, not the other way around...

> Anyone affiliated with the project can email me privately and I'll add notes where appropriate.

This is the principal difference between traditional journalism and modern blogging.

In a real newspaper, a blog post like this would have been followed by "Mismatch media did not respond to a request for comment", where the request for comment was made in good faith (AKA not 30 seconds before hitting "publish. All claims would have been properly sourced and have included annotations like "according to three former employees of Mismatch, who spoke to us on the condition of anonymity as they're contractually forbidden from discussing the project".

There's a lot of good that modern blogging can do in the world, the fact that anybody can publish a blog means that important stories aren't subject to gatekeeping, but it's a real shame that this transition means losing the journalistic standards that we historically have had.

>so the uncanny valley logic and mainstream appeal that this post frames is not as applicable. To be the most popular female streamer on Twitch and the most popular vtuber on any streaming platform for an entire week means you're already pretty mainstream, if not, there's really nothing mainstream on Twitch.

oops!

And you created a wonderful cautionary tail in working backwards when you're smart but wrong. I'd imagine that post took a little while to write, and given how little you know about what you where talking about, is why I said... not to be mean, just... it really does become amusing.