I don't know how people can even manage to read through this stuff, much less upvote it. It's even more depressing to me that a comment her got flagged for pointing out this was slop.
Is Gareth the cat in the picture at the top? Is the cat writing the blog post? I agree with the sentiment of the article but it doesn't have a solution. Everyone has to hustle to make it work.
<meta name="description" content="AI Generated. Black cat laptop on kitchen table. Window with view of misty Welsh mountains and Blodwyn the sheep in the background
So.. AI generated cat? Blodwyn also, or is (s)he a real sheep? But then I stumbled onto this page:
Compare the pics. Same-looking window, same view, different table/kitchen.
So I'd guess the 'sheep' is just a small element of AI-generated pic. With that element looking like a sheep. But why would it be called Blodwyn then? Did it ever exist as a real sheep? Did author know a sheep called Blodwyn @ some point? Was there a real sheep named Blodwyn whose photo wound up in AI model's training data?
Machines and processes like the internet barely want things. People and companies who abuse it want things, which has eventually the same effect on other people and companies.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 40.2 ms ] threadgareth sounds like my kind of guy lol.
- you are writing a post on your blog and sharing it on HN?
- what is your objective? traffic? email? newsletter signups? eventually sell some course to them?
- it is always easy to point fingers at someone with a bigger budget
<meta name="description" content="AI Generated. Black cat laptop on kitchen table. Window with view of misty Welsh mountains and Blodwyn the sheep in the background
So.. AI generated cat? Blodwyn also, or is (s)he a real sheep? But then I stumbled onto this page:
https://grumpywelshman.com/ancient-welsh-hydration-protocolt...
Compare the pics. Same-looking window, same view, different table/kitchen.
So I'd guess the 'sheep' is just a small element of AI-generated pic. With that element looking like a sheep. But why would it be called Blodwyn then? Did it ever exist as a real sheep? Did author know a sheep called Blodwyn @ some point? Was there a real sheep named Blodwyn whose photo wound up in AI model's training data?
There's a mystery unfolding right there lol...
("About" page has some clues though)
Machines and processes like the internet barely want things. People and companies who abuse it want things, which has eventually the same effect on other people and companies.