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Comment by JohnFen | Hacker News Reader

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.

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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.

from the submissions that get at least 50 points, 15 out of the last 100 were AI related.

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.

>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.

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.

I would settle for some filtering features

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.

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and use GPT to create a variant of HN with GPT stories filtered out.

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"

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.

There are some decent greasemonkey (or whatever monkey you prefer) scripts out there to hide them. Totally worth it IMO.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274050

Here's one featured here on HN.

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