Hacker News with Generative AI: Criticism

More Everything Forever (nytimes.com)
In “More Everything Forever,” the science journalist Adam Becker subjects Silicon Valley’s “ideology of technological salvation” to critical scrutiny.
Technology, Criticism, Silicon Valley
155 points by c0rtex 3 days ago | 278 comments
The Board Game Industry Is Burning – and It's Their Own Fault (highnoongame.com)
Board Games, Industry, Business, Criticism
18 points by gmargari 5 days ago | 14 comments
I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype (unixdigest.com)
I truly and passionately hate hype. From the fakeness of it to the sheer stupidity it represents, but perhaps most of all, because of the devastating consequence it often results in.
Artificial Intelligence, Opinion, Criticism
181 points by smartmic 7 days ago | 217 comments
Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI into Operating Systems (howtogeek.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Operating Systems, Technology, Criticism
38 points by gnabgib 13 days ago | 21 comments
Mastodon Exit Interview (v.cx)
I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is that it’s become increasing clear that Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind.
Social Media, Mastodon, Criticism, Technology
77 points by icy 15 days ago | 82 comments
All of Apple's services are abysmal (coryd.dev)
All of them. Seriously. Except iMessage. Everything else? They range from mediocre to outright unusable and none of them are reliable. I've written about Apple Music. That one launched and cost me a phone battery. Duplicate tracks, halting playback and heat.
Apple, Software, Opinion, Criticism, Technology
16 points by xz18r 19 days ago | 1 comments
In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea (rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea.
Software Development, DevOps, Criticism
9 points by gpi 22 days ago | 2 comments
Switch 2's new "Game-Key Cards" are the worst of digital and physical (sethmlarson.dev)
So the Switch 2 got announced in a Nintendo Direct yesterday. The event itself was essentially an unending series of incredible new information about the Switch 2 console and games. Here are my mixed thoughts, especially about things that weren't included in the live stream.
Gaming, Hardware, Criticism, Nintendo
6 points by SethMLarson 23 days ago | 1 comments
It's Unreal Just How Awful 'Real ID' Is (2020) (zocalopublicsquare.org)
Do you love this country, this state, and your freedoms?
Government, Identification, Privacy, Criticism, United States
16 points by leotravis10 23 days ago | 50 comments
We need a better term for GenAI output – "slop" is too benign (rockpapershotgun.com)
Earlier this month, Snail Games put out a widely and justifiably clowned-on genAI trailer for Ark: Survival Evolved's Aquatica DLC.
Generative AI, Video Games, Terminology, Criticism, AI
10 points by fjghajkhdfgjlk 24 days ago | 0 comments
Why MCP Is Mostly Bullshit (lycee.ai)
If you follow the AI space closely, you’ve surely noticed the increased interest in MCP (Model Context Protocol).
Artificial Intelligence, AI, Criticism
7 points by kristjansson 24 days ago | 0 comments
The Mediocrity of Modern Google (om.co)
These days, whenever I think about Google, I recall a line from Madame Bovary. “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris,” Flaubert writes, capturing Emma Bovary’s provincial reality and her romanticized dreams of escape. That is Google in a nutshell, isn’t it?
Google, Technology, Opinion, Criticism
49 points by mji 27 days ago | 26 comments
The tech fantasy that powers AI is running on fumes (nytimes.com)
Behold the decade of mid tech!
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Future, Criticism
9 points by abelanger 28 days ago | 2 comments
Nobody should be a "content creator" (christianheilmann.com)
As part of my job, I have to keep up with the social media space and I’m worried, bored and annoyed in equal measures. There is not much social about it any longer. Instead it’s become a race to the bottom of lowest common denominator content. And interaction bait. Or rage bait. Or just obvious spam disguised in seemingly sophisticated sound bites generated by AI.
Social Media, Content Creation, AI, Technology, Criticism
70 points by mfld 29 days ago | 44 comments
Tim, don't kill my vibe (irace.me)
Recent criticism of Apple’s AI efforts has been juicy to say the least, but this shouldn’t distract us from continuing to criticize one of Apple’s most deserving targets: App Review. Especially now that there’s a perfectly good AI lens through which to do so.
Apple, App Review, Artificial Intelligence, Criticism
32 points by retskrad 32 days ago | 52 comments
Ex-Meta executive: 'People deserve to know what this company is like' (cnn.com)
Meta, Business, Social Media, Criticism
15 points by Brajeshwar 35 days ago | 0 comments
When writing, don't mention people who've criticized you (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Writing, Criticism, Social Media, Twitter
13 points by amrrs 37 days ago | 18 comments
Who Is Free Software For? (tante.cc)
For a while I have been arguing that maybe there are some issues with the whole “Open*” movements, their founding myths and ideologies (see for example my talk at Fluconf). This criticism comes from a place of love.
Free Software, Open Source, Ideology, Criticism
65 points by NotInOurNames 40 days ago | 65 comments
Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino (daringfireball.net)
In the two decades I’ve been in this racket, I’ve never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple’s announcement on Friday that the “more personalized Siri” features of Apple Intelligence, scheduled to appear between now and WWDC, would be delayed until “the coming year”.
Apple, Criticism, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Technology
18 points by aucisson_masque 43 days ago | 1 comments
Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino (daringfireball.net)
In the two decades I’ve been in this racket, I’ve never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple’s announcement on Friday that the “more personalized Siri” features of Apple Intelligence, scheduled to appear between now and WWDC, would be delayed until “the coming year”.
Apple, Technology, Criticism
176 points by minimaxir 44 days ago | 28 comments
Steve Wozniak says Tesla 'is the worst in the world' at improving its technology (fortune.com)
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak is no fan of his Tesla's interior.
Tesla, Electric Vehicles, Technology, Criticism, Apple
59 points by doener 47 days ago | 32 comments
Spotify's biggest sin? Its algos pushed artists to make joyless, toothless music (theguardian.com)
In the hands of some of its most gifted practitioners, songwriting is a kind of emotional alchemy.
Music Industry, Music Streaming, Artificial Intelligence, Criticism
10 points by nickcotter 47 days ago | 3 comments
Binocular Shot (binocularshot.com)
A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots
Movies, Filmmaking, Humor, Criticism
58 points by bookofjoe 48 days ago | 32 comments
There Is No AI Revolution by Ed Zitron (wheresyoured.at)
Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have used a compliant media and braindead investors to frame unprofitable, unsustainable, environmentally-damaging and mediocre cloud software as some sort of powerful, futuristic automation.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Cloud Computing, Criticism
34 points by enpera 60 days ago | 14 comments
Elon Musk Biographer: No Evidence Billionaire Has Any Intellectual Achievements (thewrap.com)
Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his “fanboys” who have attempted to use the billionaire’s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.
Elon Musk, Biographies, Criticism, Intellectual Property
51 points by axiologist 62 days ago | 29 comments
Wikipedia's Co-Founder Is Wikipedia's Most Outspoken Critic (vice.com)
In Słubice, Poland, there’s a monument to Wikipedia, the inscription on which reads: “Wikipedia [is] the greatest project co-created by people regardless of political, religious, or cultural borders.”
Wikipedia, Criticism, Culture
13 points by lmaoguy 66 days ago | 2 comments
Statement or eyesore? Japan's divisive brutalist buildings – in pictures (theguardian.com)
Architecture, Japan, Art, Criticism
79 points by PaulHoule 69 days ago | 37 comments
Laid-off Meta employees blast Zuckerberg: the 'cruelest tech company out there' (fortune.com)
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued layoffs in the name of low-performance that workers deemed callous.
Meta, Layoffs, Tech Industry, Business, Criticism
28 points by mgh2 71 days ago | 13 comments
I Tried to Fix Government Tech for Years. I'm Fed Up (reason.com)
When I helped create the United States Digital Service (USDS), it was not on my bingo board that it would become the U.S. DOGE Service a mere decade later.
Government, Technology, Criticism, Public Service
28 points by frankish 72 days ago | 35 comments
Google Maps blocks Gulf of America reviews after rename criticism (bbc.com)
Google Maps has blocked reviews for the Gulf of Mexico, after criticism of its decision to label it "Gulf of America" for users in the US.
Google Maps, Geopolitics, Cartography, User Experience, Criticism
8 points by andsoitis 72 days ago | 9 comments