Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience
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Grant us the ability to reply to bots in a public and timestamped manner so that, if ever a human makes a similarly ridiculous response, we can just point at our response there. It'd free up space in the piece itself that'd otherwise go to asterisks and other preemptions of armchair dweebery.
Then why not add the actual fictive audience through LLMs? That's how this was born. Feel free to leave your thoughts/feedback here.
You don't have to think LLMs are smart or real people to think of them as useful. I love it when I can make an idea clear enough in text that an LLM can completely regurgitate it and build upon it. I also love it when an LLM trips over and misses the one real novelty that I've slipped into something; what better for an originality test than trying to choke an automatic regurgitator?
Transistors have no understanding of what I'm doing, but somehow I still find them useful.
The purpose and utility of this seem obvious to me, but I can already see the stream of typical HN responses coming in.
Godspeed.
Okay, but I don't understand the benefit of writing to an entirely fictitious AI construct instead of writing to the ideal of the kind of reader you'd eventually like to have.
I mean, I get that it's frustrating to pour effort into writing something that effectively nobody reads (i.e. you never connect with a wider audience), but engaging with an entirely fictitious audience seems hollow to me.
And if that was the issue this clearly doesn’t solve it since nobody is reading this.
I might be the wrong audience for this considering I have a public blog but this to me sounds like an insane product.
But hey, if someone finds it useful, good for them.
Very interesting idea, in general!
I recently restricted comments on my blog or 15 years to existing subscribers only. It took me a while to accept that after removing the random spam, then the racist, misogynist, homophobic, and other lowlife commenters, I was left with 10-15% of discussions worth reading.
Pretty sad state of affairs, and it’s clear it’s degrading faster every day.
Not tried it yet, but strange and also great idea
Thanks for sharing
This isn’t for me, but thanks for sharing.
It takes approximately zero effort to see how this could be both monetized and used for harm. This episode of Black Mirror is writing itself and congratulating itself in the comments.
Does it comment that it can't comment on that?
That being said, whatever I do I'm going to keep completely in-house, as in offline with local LLMs only, because privacy.
Well, here's what this human has to say: Maybe you just aren't the target audience.
Also, the typical misapplication of what introversion actually refers to..
If you want to write, write.
If you want to write for an audience write and make your writing public.
If you want to write for an audience and get feedback, join a writing group - in person or virtual.
If you want to use AI to workshop ideas, craft characters or build frameworks to write around, do that.
But a cosy little claque of glad handing AI simps? Honestly, what’s the point?
It literally does not concern you at all what people choose to do privately. Why feel the need to get involved?