This suffers from a common pitfall of LLM's, context taint. You can see it is obviously the front page from today with slight "future" variation, the result ends up being very formulaic.

That's what makes it fun. Apparently, Gemini has a better sense of humor than HN.

That's what the OP asked for, essentially. They copied today's homepage into the prompt and asked it for a version 10 years in the future.

Yeah that’s very true, but I still think it’s pretty funny and original.

But it would otherwise be not fun at all. Anthropic didn’t exist ten years ago, and yet today an announcement by them would land on the front page. Would it be fun if this hypothetical front page showed an announcement made by a future startup that hasn’t been founded yet? Of course not.

Algodrill is copied verbatim, as far as I can tell.

Surely there's gotta be a better term for this. Recency bias?

That’s the joke…

I agree. What is a good update prompt I can give it to create a better variant?

I think that's what makes it funny - the future turns out to be just as dismal and predictable as we expect it to be. Google kills Gemini, etc.

Humor isn't exactly a strong point of LLMs, but here it's tapped into the formulaic hive mind of HN, and it works as humor!

Isn't that a common pitfall of humans too?

In numerous shows these days AI is the big bad thing. Before that it was crypto. In the 1980s every bad guy was Russian, etc.

I think the most absurd thing to come from the statistical AI boom is how incredibly often people describe a model doing precisely what it should be expected to do as a "pitfall" or a "limitation".

It amazes me that even with first-hand experience, so many people are convinced that "hallucination" exclusively describes what happens when the model generates something undesirable, and "bias" exclusively describes a tendency to generate fallacious reasoning.

These are not pitfalls. They are core features! An LLM is not sometimes biased, it is bias. An LLM does not sometimes hallucinate, it only hallucinates. An LLM is a statistical model that uses bias to hallucinate. No more, no less.