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bccdeelast Friday at 8:21 PM4 repliesview on HN

Slop. The illustrations are bad, the article is way too long, and none of it has a clear point.


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mossTechniciantoday at 2:45 PM

I've seen footage of the Mother Of All Demos, and plenty of material depicting a real Xerox Alto exists online. It's too bad none of that material made it into the article, but AI-generated facsimiles did.

AI images in general are a red flag in articles, but these ones additionally push me to go elsewhere for information.

oneeyedpigeontoday at 2:28 PM

Tbf, the author declares this right at the beginning:

> (I made all the comics in this article with Nano Banana Pro.)

I don't see any strong evidence for the article being AI-written, however. Given the author, I would be very disappointed if it were.

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outofpapertoday at 2:26 PM

It's sucrose to being a good sweet article. Really though it should be used as a draft for something that wasn't just vibed. Eg fix the mice and loose the sparks from cutting wood.

Dwedittoday at 4:27 PM

The worst thing is that it is possible to correct areas of an AI generated image that are bad or inconsistent. That wasn't even done at all.

Examples of bad areas include the Menu Bar superhero (garbled text), and the keyboards (some nonsense numpads).

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