Wait...wh...why?!?
Of all the things, actual pictures of the planet Saturn are readily available in the public domain. Why poison the internet with fake images of it?
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
> > The image of Saturn was generated with ChatGPT.
> Wait...wh...why?!?
It has just begun. Wait until nobody bothers using Wikipedia, websites, or even one day forums.
This is going to eat everything.
And when it's immediate to say something like, "I need a high contrast image of Saturn of dimensions X by Y, focus on Saturn, oblique angle" -- that's going to be magic.
We'll look at the internet and Google like we look at going to the library and grabbing an encyclopedia off the shelves.
The use of calculators didn't kill ingenuity, nor did the switch to the internet. Despite teachers protesting both.
Humans will always use the lowest friction thing, and we will never stop reaching for the stars.
I’ve been having The Talk with my kids recently. They’ll say “I looked up this question and the answer was X.” And I’ll ask “was that answer on a credible website, or was it an AI summary?” And then explain, again, that LLMs are great at producing plausible sounding explanations for things, but that you have to ground-truth anything that they tell you if it’s important that it’s correct.
I, for one, have been hoping that AI slop would cause people to be a LOT more cynical about the information they get (from the internet in particular, but from any source in general)
dang|1 month ago
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
pjc50|1 month ago
Are we sure the planets are real?
taneq|1 month ago
userbinator|1 month ago
echelon|1 month ago
> Wait...wh...why?!?
It has just begun. Wait until nobody bothers using Wikipedia, websites, or even one day forums.
This is going to eat everything.
And when it's immediate to say something like, "I need a high contrast image of Saturn of dimensions X by Y, focus on Saturn, oblique angle" -- that's going to be magic.
We'll look at the internet and Google like we look at going to the library and grabbing an encyclopedia off the shelves.
The use of calculators didn't kill ingenuity, nor did the switch to the internet. Despite teachers protesting both.
Humans will always use the lowest friction thing, and we will never stop reaching for the stars.
taneq|1 month ago
awesome_dude|1 month ago
But it's not happened yet