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Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things

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It seems that at least part of these are stolen/copied works from others. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdHGZhytcx8/ https://annaluciawrites.substack.com/p/how-to-steal-my-work

If we look to a future where getting in the "credits" is important. Maybe in the future an AI will just credit other AI work. They will make it in a super small font so it's barely legible. Some AI can program and print the official standard. "All inspired/stolen work must be publicly documented in this fashion".

Many people will sleep better at night knowing their own AI work was recognized by another's AI.

I personally find I sleep best after a solid day's work.

The thought of everyone becoming LLM middleware tires me out in a way sleep doesn't help.

I agree, the world scenario I stated is the same as the world of recruiting and getting a job now where the worker's AI battles against the HR department AI.

I sleep best after a long days work which is intellectually challenging, not pressing Enter/Approve with Claude for the entire shift.

This is a really good response - “if youre going to copy my work, do it right.”

Everyone borrows... Personally I collect lots of references, research the subject a lot before even starting to ideate. Combine techniques, elements, concepts but never blatantly copy anything.

There's a lot of weird, seemingly LLM-generated comments hyping the project here.

I think HN should start thinking seriously about more effective strategies to combat LLM-assisted astroturfing, if they aren't already.

None of this speaks about the quality of the project itself, but the fact that someone seems to be trying to manipulate me into caring about it makes me less inclined toward wanting to see anything relating to it.

I am not sure how to recognize llm-assisted astroturfing and how to filter it. Because I commented the project that I liked it but got downvotes - maybe my sentences were weird :)

Your sentences are weird and your praise does more harm than good for the project, in the first order at least. In the second order, comment counter is probably the most valuable ad on HN, so your comments (and mine, and all the replies) contribute positively to that.

I don’t get it :) What I have found out is that it is better to stay silent here on HN in some threads.

Some of these are neat. I like the stripey ones. Not sure what I would use it for though.

Pretty neat. I see the page considers there to be 5 different kinds of tools but the only ones I can find all make 2D textures/images. Are there others I just am failing to locate?

This is sweet! Is there like a way to contribute and build these or is this just a list of cool things someone has made?

this looks really good, very fun to play with too

Finally something to go deep and try everything. Beautifully crafted. Kudos.

Before you downvote me, I have used it for nicely wallpapers as this app offers several formats 1:1,3:2 etc.

Interesting! Raw JavaScript writes to an ImageData buffer enlarged to canvas. No 3rd party libs or WGSL

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