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Comment by solenoid0937 | Hacker News Reader

HN discussion quality has deteriorated dramatically, especially for anything AI related.

One of my indices of mania. You saw similar comments for crypto, blockchain, NFT, VR.

Unfortunately it's not limited to the trendy topics. For example there is a huge amount of factually wrong comments on the topic of npm vulnerabilities. I'm sure it's the same on topics I know less about.

I think there are also people who understand the technology but overestimate potential impact. I remember someone at the Apple Vision Pro announcement arguing that this would be one of Apple’s biggest products and everyone would want them for taking photos and videos of their kids birthdays and such because it would be so much more natural than pulling out a camera and they just couldn’t be talked out of it.

Sometimes a technology can be really cool and never catch on. Sometimes a technology can be really popular anbd even world changing and never make much if any money.

One of the reasons my account is so young is that I went through each of those on HN and decided fuck it and nuked my credentials so I don’t have to stare at it.

There again now.

Sadly you are absolutely correct. The quality has nosedived in the past 1-2 years. I am not sure the exact cause but one of the things I noticed is a massive uptick in users who have insane post counts with sub 1-2 year history.

Breaking the rules but it does feel very much like Facebook or Reddit where there are distinct hive minds on topics and it just becomes a pissing match between brain-dead individuals.

Mind that the host of this site has an interest in keeping the hype going on ...

And? Continue down your conspiracy theory please.

It specifically has deteriorated because of the people like you, who peddle unfounded AI-hype while being on the payroll of one of the major labs and not disclosing it properly. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270186 for more information.

Also, how would you even know the deterioration? You have been barely 2 years on this website. Once again you gave away your shill nature.

I suspect this is due to fatigue. I admit I often post low quality replies under AI slop posts, simply because flagging them does nothing when they are somehow upvoted above and beyond anything human made.

This fatigue also causes a lot of readers to skip the AI threads, meaning less self-moderation of the forum through voting.

No, it's bots. When it comes to AI the HN community is now the mark.

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