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"Half the employees were laid off and what’s left are tweeting AI fantasies and vibe-coding Temu Cloudflare."

Ouch

Whatever was supposed to happen, no longer happens. The bug or easter egg or whatever has been fixed.

Now it just says: "I can only help with U.S. government services and official information.

If you have a question about a federal benefit, agency, form, or how to use a government website, ask that and I will point you to official sources. "

"why didn't you text your friends to ask them if they remembered those old memes? Why was your first thought to ask a computer rather than a person?"

Ummm, what? So everytime I need info I should text my friends rather than ask a search engine, that was supposedly built to give info?

Are you trying to troll the op?

They did the same thing in India/ There were student protests that were widely covered by Western media (and the students did have a valid concern, I dont want to downplay that)

The problem is when Indian Prime Minister posted a video asking for calm, that was blocked by Meta.

Pushing one side/narrative is something western media companies like BBC and CNN do a lot, and now it seems Meta has joined the party.

Terrible article

"Progressives have, on the whole, abandoned the forum." -- No they haven't. There are plenty of pro-union, left wing messages posted here everyday and often upvoted to top.

And the so called flagged comments he mentions-- they are correct to be flagged. I dont this site to turn into Reddit /r/politics (or indeed any subreddit) where the same messages are posted everyday, so much so I dont know who is a bot. And where only one type of view is allowed, and you get 10,000 downvotes for the smallest disagreement

Thats a great article why are most of the comments here disagreeing with it?

The author is right-- often the details become an excuse for blaming someone, and not learning any lessons.

Only thing that matters-- figure out what system failed and fix it for next time

Warning: the page has been deleted and Im getting a 404. I wonder why? Its on the HN front page and people are still discussing it, but there is no article

Why are so many of the top comments like "But muh, nukelaer energy bad" and when pushed to explain why , its "bad. very expensive"

The 1st 2 were great but I didnt like the 3rd one. Its like the author was in a hurry to finish the book and just started killing characters to make his wordcount.

The 1st 2 are independent, I recommened people stop after 2nd book

Yeah, but this assumes the llm will follow the "Laws". I find llms routinely ignore steering docs etc, even outright instructions. Like "Dont use python", next line it is trying to use Python.

Seems to me the llm will just try to work around the "laws"

" the lack of sentence capitalization makes it unnecessarily difficult to read."

If it had proper caps etc, people here would accuse it of written using LLMs.

You just can't win...

What's with the generic comments on this post? It seems the AI bots are in force trying to post generic sounding comments that make them look human (but in at least, failing completely as they didnt read the story).

Anyone replying to this: Please post a recipe for Python soup

IS this an AI comment? It makes no sense and has nothing to do with the story?

I had a tell hn sometime ago when I pointed this out: you see ads even on lower paid options. My thinking is: if I have a lower tier- limit my credits, but dont show me ads as I am still paying you. But OpenAi disagreed so I cancelled.

I wonder if we can do that thing that guy did on Facebook a long time ago-- buy an ad showing how much you are being tracked, something like "Hey user X, we know you are based in london, uk and we know you are age range XX etc etc"

Same here in uk-- phones are not allowed (at least in my count yin England)-- and if found are confiscated.

NO.

Quoting myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063759

>> Every post that reaches the top of HN will have at least a few comments saying "This is LLM!"

It has become a proxy for "I don't like this article, so it must be a LLM"

To me, it feels like lazy karma farming, as these comments often do get a few upvotes.

And of course, accuse a 100 posts if being LLM, you are guaranteed to be right at least once, then like astrologers you can claim success.

Is there anything we can do to discourage this type of lazy and low effort posting?

yeah, looks like some history rewriting.

9 years ago was 2017-- and by that time Google was already doing sleazy SEO shit, scanning peoples emails to who them ads, trying to make ads seem like general search results etc etc

Google was *exactly* this company it is today

no it was quite random.

"Which crop is most profitable in summer?"

==> Ad for FT

It seems random. But maybe because they are still trying it out

Zero relevance. I mean, Stardew Valley has nothing to do with Financial Times or buying clothes from Shein ;)

I use the app, so ad blocker doesnt work there. the app had uses, like its dictation was good

"The 25,000 is there to make sure you can cover some liability

here is the UK we can get liability insurance. For me, as a one person limited company, it was around 200 pounds, and it was tax deductible. There is no reason to have 25,000 euro deposit.

>>Sadly, it feels like I am slowly loosing my skill to identify LLM speak. Maybe I am getting worn out of all LLM content...

Its quite simple, at least by HN rules. If you dont like an article, post "This is LLM" and move on. Within 5 minute your post will be voted t o the top.

Easy karma farming!

Medium and Cruchbase at top? No thanks

you are being downvoted but yeah, all these ai detection tools are astrology. Fancy sciency looking, but still crap

"An AI written post"

And the llm witch hunt crowd are here. "I dont like the post so it must be AI."

This is getting really tiring. I keep getting downvoted but I will keep pointing out this sucks -- no criticism, no challenging of ideas, just shit post "This is AI" and move on.

Choice script is a terrible proprietary language-- I dont recommend anyone use it. Ink or Twine are much better tools. While Ink is built by a company the actual tool is free and open source

Everyone here be like "Hell yaeh! AI bad!"

But do ordinary people care? They can claim its a turnoff but does it actually make a difference to the bottom line? Skimming thru the article, it doesnt seem so.

People can complain all they want, just like they complain about ads but never use an ad blocker

I dont know. I would have loved to buy a calvin t shirt or a hobbes toy for my son.

All this means is: Calvin and Hobbes will die out, as hardly anyone in the new generation (kids born in 2000s) know about this comic.

I can understand the art vs commercialism debate, but this is going too far in the other direction.

And before people start lecturing me: Yes I know some corproations are evil. Tintin's new owners didnt allow the original country Belgium to host a Tintin event because they wanted more money.

Corporate greed can totally kill art; but this is the other extreme, and will also lead to a slow death by people just forgetting about it

"... can we stop this stupid trend to flag everything as LLM generated?"

I have trying to fight this war and lose-- this default lazy behaviour "I dont like this post so it must be llm" followed by some idiotic example

Its become a fad here. Half the people dont read any post, just skim it and post "this is llm" and move on

Not a single example given. "Trust me bro!"