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sdevonoestoday at 9:45 AM5 repliesview on HN

The litmus test is this: do you enjoy consuming AI-generated stuff?

I don’t. Whether it’s written text, or video, audio, restaurant menus, clothing pictures, documentation, airport control, ads…

I do think there’s value in LLMs but as a sort of better search engines and q/a machines.


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chiitoday at 10:55 AM

> do you enjoy consuming AI-generated stuff?

you might be in the minority, because a lot of people don't care for low quality, as long as it "works". The same effect happened with consumer appliances/products, software and fast foods.

There's a minimum standard/threshold that must be met, but sooner or later, the AI generating these output can meet them (even if it doesnt right now). Therefore, at some point in the future, ai output will dominate man made ones, whether you want to or not. You will still have a chance at purchasing manually created product/service, just like you could today with handcrafted goods (at exorbitant prices compared to the cheap manufactured goods available).

zulbantoday at 1:47 PM

People are spending billions of dollars a month in aggregate because yes, they do like it.

cyanregimenttoday at 10:05 AM

You enjoy good AI all the time you just don’t know it.

Nobody enjoys bad 1-shot AI.

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melezhiktoday at 10:44 AM

I consider AI generated stuff as a raw material , never as a product ready to be consumed by any public clients

kubobletoday at 9:58 AM

To be fair. I hate slop as much as any other person. But for me the issue is poor quality rather than just the fact that it's ai.

I love good ai stuff even if it's obvious it's ai

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