Comment by keyle | Hacker News Reader

Comment by keyle | Hacker News Reader

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I listen to 5 mins of this and all I can feel is sadness and how cringe it is.

Please do not replace humanity with a faint imitation of what makes use human, actual spontaneity.

If you produce AI content, don't emulate small talk and quirky side jabs. It's pathetic.

This is just more hot garbage on top of a pile of junk.

I imagine a brighter future where we can choose to turn that off and remove it from search, like the low quality content it is. I would rather read imperfect content from human beings, coming from the source, than perfectly redigested AI clown vomit.

Note: I use AI tools every day. I have nothing against AI generated content, I have everything against AI advancements in human replacement, the "pretend" part. Classifying and returning knowledge is great. But I really dislike the trend of making AI more "human like", to the point of deceiving, such as pretending small talk and perfect human voice synthesis.

If AI-generated speech is robot-like, dull and monotonous, it will be boring. I think we need human-like speech to make it interesting to listen to. What's your solution to this problem?

OTOH, i think the AI generated stuff should be clearly marked as such so there is no pretending.

I think they've set it up to sound like NPR meets patronizing customer support agent. They could easily set it up to sound exactly the way you / any listener would like to hear their podcasts.

But yeah - like electronic instruments, AI will take away the blue collar creative jobs, leaving behind a lot more noise and an even greater economic imbalance.

>don't emulate small talk and quirky side jabs. It's pathetic.

>all I can feel is sadness and how cringe it is.

Hm, really? I came to the opposite conclusion. I explained this to a friend who can see very little, and usually relies on audio to experience a lot of the world and written content - it is especially hard because a lot of written content isn't available in audio form or isn't talked about it.

He was pretty excited about it, and so am I. Maybe it's not the use case for you, and that's fine, but going "this is pathetic, no one is using it, le cringe" is a bit far.

I didn't write "no one is using it" and what is "le cringe"?

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