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Show HN: NotYetNews – AI-Generated News from the Future

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53 pointsjohnpolacek44 comments

Check out my recent full-GPT-4 generated HN parody as well:

https://crackernews.github.io

(featuring coherent comment threads!)

P.S. the prompts and the code I used can be found here: https://github.com/crackernews/crackernews.github.io/blob/gh...

There's also Rachel's Whacker News: https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/

And Filippo Valsorda's gem:

https://filippo.io/fakenews/

And of course my one (shameless plug):

https://coxomb.github.io/This-Hacker-News-Does-Not-Exist/

I think everyone should have their own fake HN side project lol

I feel like stripping the emojis out would make it a bit more realistic

A good idea, did it.

The site is great, by the way

This is great! Pretty similar to what I did in that you have actual links to the articles and even images. If you had a cron script that auto-generated new content every day, I think that would be the only thing that I'm doing that crackernews doesn't yet.

Another interesting choice is you are generating the article content itself. It is wild how you can get it to generate markup on the fly for different styles of posts.

For my project, I'm generating structured JSON with an [OpenAI Function](https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/create#c...) as I found even if you tell it the format you want in the prompt, it sometimes ignores it or doesn't match exactly. Then I'm uploading the JSON and images to S3.

I didn't realize you could get a DALLE image and drop it in your own directory with a oneliner like you have. Very nice!

> If you had a cron script that auto-generated new content every day

Thank you for the feedback! I thought about that initially, but turned out that generated jokes become a bit repetitive after a while and the project actually requires manual curation (for which I don't have the time). Or, it needs some source of "external entropy" which I haven't figured yet.

What is also interesting is the exact ways in which LLM humor becomes repetitive. I believe it could be a subject of study on its own, as it reveals something interesting about how human humor is structured.

P.S. For example, for some reason LLM really love all kinds of jokes about pirates, pizza, cheese and lost socks.

Yeah I found the same regarding repetition. I avoided that by seeding it with new data from NYTimes API each day.

Found this in the thread about GPT-10...

kernelKommando 4 minutes ago | parent | next [–]

What if we're all just GPT-generated comments in a GPT-generated world, and this is our existence now? reply

existentialDev 4 minutes ago | parent | next [–]

Well, that's my existential crisis for the day. Thanks a lot, kernelKommando. reply

Now this is "me"...What if we are all just existences spawned by GPT-1000 for the fleeting amusement of some beings...

It easily could be. And according to the simulation hypothesis (by Nick Bostrom), it is the most probable thing actually.

P.S. There is also a hilarious Rick and Morty episode about a car battery universe: https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Microverse_Battery

And yeah... it is interesting that GPT-generated agents sometimes "realize" that they could be indeed GPT-generated.

I once saw a strange dream where my "character" realized that he was only a product of my imagination — the very moment before I woke up. It was not me, but him, who had that stunning realization. And once it happened, there was no him.

So I sometimes wonder if that is how the death looks like — you just suddenly realize that "you" was only a subprocess temporarily spawned to existence within some kind of powerful virtual machine, be it a GPT-1000 or whatever.

I built `This Hackernews Does Not Exist` which is similar to this:

https://coxomb.github.io/This-Hacker-News-Does-Not-Exist/

HN comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33845946

The post that worries me most about the future is "Ask HN: What Happened to Pizza?"

Cool! Old school no AI just good ol fashioned JS :)

Nice to see a fun, creative project like this. The LLM tie-in makes sense because it keeps headlines fresh & relevant to today's news. Thanks for sharing!

If anyone else wants a peek behind the curtain, here is the GPT-4 call: https://github.com/johnpolacek/notyetnews/blob/main/cron/ope...

Dare I say "The Onion" but in the future? That's what came to my mind when I saw it the site!

I think the year 2122 will be closer to Dune than any of these more optimistic articles. Or maybe Fahrenheit 451 if we don’t totally screw up the environment, with a dose of Harrison Bergeron.

In 2122 most western countries will look like slums in Brazil and South Africa, mixed with disproportionate wealth in a few places. Add a sprinkle of minority report, since (state) mass surveillance tech will be cheap and ubiquitous. People will still eat, fuck and shit. Coca cola and major brands will still exist in some way or another. The environment will remain the same.

very funny. But "NEW YORK - The year is 2122 and the fight for clean energy has taken an unexpected, yet entertaining turn." Shouldn't it read as a current news article writen in 2122? I wouldn't say "The year is 2023 and" today.

To be fair, this type of intro has been used plenty of times as a stylistic choice

https://archive.is/qwURS

For a more present-oriented, yet archaic in its delivery, news coverage I recommend the Medieval Content Farm: https://tidings.potato.horse

It seems like something is wrong with the links, at least on my machine. If I click the summary of the top article, I get linked to the second article. Clicking on the second article leads me to the third article, and so on.

2122 and still plagued by off-by-one errors!

Yes, same for me on mobile, took a while for me to figure out what was going on because the one I was getting was so similar to the one I was trying to click.

Oops! Fixed now

This one is actually quite hopeful! https://www.notyet.news/news/2023-08-13/1

> Why a Basic Algorithm Garnered Unprecedented Support from Quantum-Net Billionaires

> In an absurd twist of events, the quantum-net community is perplexed by the curious case of AI-RH1002 – an unremarkable algorithm sowing division in a universally united world. Like many divisive codes before it, AI-RH1002 seems to have won the backing of quantum-net billionaires.

Very funny site idea! This snippet reminds me of Ian M. Banks novels about the Culture.

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