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Maybe we can have a specific tab for submitted contents about GPT and AI

77 points by felipemaciel ↗ HN
We are being dizzyingly bombarded with submitted content and information about GPT and AI by the hour, and one way to filter this excess is to create a tab only on the subject as exists with Show and Jobs.

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JohnFen
I don't think that's necessary. ChatGPT is just the current hotness and gets lots of submissions. Before LLMs, it was cryptocurrency. After LLMs, it will be something else.

If we made a new tab for every topic that becomes hot for a while, there would be too many tabs for that to be useful.

Just ignore the topics that don't interest you and wait. The overabundance of submissions on these topics will pass, and be replaced by whatever tomorrow's New Hotness is.

mrleinad
I would settle for some filtering features
dcow
TBH I feel like this would damage the community/experience. Part of the "magic" is learning about a topic that you wouldn't normally be interested in, but which is presented in a particularly compelling, new, or original way such that it garners attention here. I like those moments.
henriquez
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and use GPT to create a variant of HN with GPT stories filtered out.
zug_zug
Maybe you jest, but this is the future of the internet. Except instead of filtering by "is ai related" it will be able to "exclude by is-toxic, is political, is a whataboutism, etc"
JohnFen
Maybe. But that AI would have to know you, specifically, very well in order to understand what you consider toxic, political, etc.

Personally, I wouldn't want such a filter at all. It would exclude me being exposed to things outside of my comfort zone. I think that would be an unacceptable loss.

dcow
On top of that, AI posts aren't even a majority of submissions by a long shot, at least not those that actually float to the front page...

EDIT: I spot checked /newest. 4 of the 30 submissions are AI related and one of those four is more business (about AWS' new AI focused accelerator) than actually about the technology itself. Another is a Wired article about the ethics of AI research. One is a new tool that incorporates AI. And one is a poll. Point being of the AI submissions, there's clear diversity of content.

em-bee
from the submissions that get at least 50 points, 15 out of the last 100 were AI related.
dcow
Or, between 4 and 5 of 30 on the front page, which is consistent with the state of the front page when I checked earlier. So AI submissions are not being upvoted more or less frequently than other topics, but they do account for about 15 percent of submissions based on super spotty data.
antibasilisk
>ChatGPT is just the current hotness and gets lots of submissions

No, GPT, diffusion, etc are all content factories. It's not a fad, it's the way things are going to be going forward. Human generated content is going to be dwarfed by comparison.

JohnFen
By "current hotness", I mean "the topic that is dominating the conversation". I did not intend it to be a commentary on the impact of the tech itself.

Even if what you say is true, this is not a topic that will dominate HN forever.

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vore
The posts don't annoy me so much as the people in the comments talking about AI with zero relevance to the topic, like "I just had a discussion with ChatGPT about [topic]" or "LLMs will revolutionize [completely unrelated thing]." No, you did not "discuss" anything, and I don't care, please engage with the topic.
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gateorade
Please stop. Doing this the first week ChatGPT was released was cute. Now it's so so tired.
sarchertech
It really is surprisingly easy to spot.
unshavedyak
I wonder, is there a prompt we'll see people start using to mitigate this?

The days of it being so obvious to spot have to be short lived.. no?

Cyphase
I understand the annoyance.

That said, I think the point is not a bad one.

> At the same time, it's important to remember that AI and LLMs have become an increasingly pervasive part of modern life, and it's natural for people to discuss these developments as they relate to various topics. It's possible that some commenters might be genuinely interested in exploring the potential impact of AI on different aspects of life, ...

altairprime
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Fauntleroy
It's simply a reflection of how popular the subject is right now. Like it or not, the "hacker news" of the present is AI, AI, and more AI.
alsetmusic
I recall some sites enabling filtering for iPhone content shortly before that hit the market. I don’t think this is a bad idea.
riogordo2go
Funny thing: I asked ChatGPT last week to write me a script to fetch the latest HN posts and notify me on Telegram when a post matches a given keyword. Keeps me updated without wading through the ChatGPT posts.
xg15
Maybe you could prompt ChatGPT to write a browser extension for that...
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HopenHeyHi
Might as well add anything remotely Elon related or vaguely political to that list. I miss hacker news.

Emotional screeching about nontechnical subjects I can get any old place on the internet. These here be where we screech about technical subjects dagnabit.

tehranian
If there's going to be tabs/filters, having something to filter out general news and politics would be a much higher priority to me.

We've survived for years without that, therefore I think HN can survive without filters for AI/ChatGPT.

ftxbro
'hackers have been trying to make superhuman intelligence forever and now a confluence of factors puts it in reach, and the discussions about it are jamming up my hacker news feed'
ftxbro
Imagine a news group on explosives research, and how they felt after the nuclear explosives demonstrations in the 1940s. Probably they would have been so bored by it. Nothing but articles and discussions about nuclear explosives every day jamming up their news feed.
igetspam
As an AI language model, I cannot make changes to the website or its features. However, I can suggest that you reach out to the website's administrators and suggest this idea to them. You can also try using the search bar or filters to narrow down your search to specific topics or keywords related to GPT and AI. Additionally, you can consider subscribing to specific subreddits or forums related to GPT and AI to receive updates on these topics.
godDLL
Sure, long as the sorting is also done by an AI. Like an AI category cloud. No changes to HN needed. Go for it.