| ▲ | OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics(modelrepublic.org) |
| 100 points by JSR_FDED 3 hours ago | 21 comments |
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| ▲ | iammrpayments an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Probably doing something similar here. This place average post went from “look at this new javascript framework” to “I just became 100x more productive with AI” in the last 3 years |
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| ▲ | claaams 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I’ve noticed this too. I’ve seen a ton ai defenders and hype people here. It’s embarrassing. | | |
| ▲ | bob1029 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | It was embarrassing a year+ ago when much of this technology barely worked at all. If you did not perceive a step change in model capabilities in late 2025, it's possible you are working on problems that are just too hard or not well aligned (e.g., arts and crafts). If you are working on software and need to move the occasional mountain, it's really hard to argue with the capabilities of contemporary models and harnesses. This space is evolving rapidly. Faster in some areas than others, but you should still keep an open mind and adapt to the new realities as they emerge. Wishing for a thing to fail can blind you to more opportunities than you would probably be willing to reject if they were presented directly. | |
| ▲ | matheusmoreira a few seconds ago | parent | prev [-] | | Please don't imply every "AI defender" is a bot. |
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| ▲ | tokioyoyo 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It would be cool to see HN internal stats over the last 5 years. New users, posts from different accounts and etc. | | |
| ▲ | woozyolliew 32 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Yeah. Could be astroturfing. Could just be a surge in enthusiasm after 10 years when all we had to be excited about was a new Javascript framework. Your analysis by account age might be telling | | |
| ▲ | bossyTeacher 29 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > Could just be a surge in enthusiasm after 10 years when all we had to be excited about was a new Javascript framework. No. I distinctly remember HN being fairly skeptical of LLMs the way they were sold back in 2023. Then, the astroturfing began happening gradually. First in the comments and then in the posts. | | |
| ▲ | tokioyoyo 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | To be very fair, I was also very skeptical about LLMs in 2023. Not so much anymore. Edit: ok, i guess this account is from 2024, but been around a while. I guess can’t defend myself like this :) | | |
| ▲ | loeg 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I share the same sentiment, and my account is at least ten years old. |
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| ▲ | doix 11 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah, I was very skeptical and now I've drank the kool-aid. Got multiple parallel cloud agents with independent loops making PRs and me reviewing them. AI is also reviewing PRs and sometimes even catches useful things. LLMs in 2023, from what I remember, were slightly better auto complete. It's pretty different now. |
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| ▲ | weird-eye-issue 29 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yeah but that's just how things have gone. My enthusiasm about a new JavaScript framework is practically zero these days compared to several years ago, and I do genuinely use AI for all of my coding especially since I developed a health issue that prevents me from typing | |
| ▲ | raincole 14 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Or, you know, many people genuinely find it exciting to see AI pumping their long overdue side-projects, just like many people once found bikeshedding their frontend frameworks exciting? |
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| ▲ | 0xDEAFBEAD 3 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Funny, I was told by HN commenters that worries about AI risk are just a clever marketing strategy on the part of OpenAI and friends. I wonder why they would be working so hard to push back? |
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| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is there a state in which this constitutes fraud? |
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| ▲ | ranyume 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | There are only two industries left in america. | |
| ▲ | zombot 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | It would have to be state law so the president can't pardon them. | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 32 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > would have to be state law so the president can't pardon them Sure. Based on cursory analysis, California (B&P § 17200 + § 17941), New York (§ 63(12)) and New Hampshire (RSA 664:14 / 664:16 + RSA 358-A) seem to be good places to start. Worst case, we get a public record of who paid for what under what pretences. | | |
| ▲ | defrost 24 minutes ago | parent [-] | | How's this kind of thing play in the US with free speech, Citizen's United, companies with money can make political statements, etc. What's the actual fraud angle? Non disclosure? |
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| ▲ | jms703 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is normal tech company marketing strategy, right? |
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| ▲ | ProAm 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The only reason OpenAI wants to give 5% of the company to the US government is so they become 'to big to fail'. They dont give a s** about the US, its just a way to get funding when the bubble bursts |
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| ▲ | protocolture 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| >But there don’t seem to be any contributors, or at least not human ones. I ran every article on the site through Pangram (the AI detector that credibly claims a near-zero false-positive rate). Of the 94 articles, 69% came back flagged as fully AI-generated, with another 28% flagged as partially AI-generated. Only three articles were classified as human-authored. How credible is this credible claim? |
