Hacker News with Generative AI: Online Content

Ask HN: Websites that actually test and review products for listicles (ycombinator.com)
Every now and then I want to know, for example, what the best shower filter is on the market. Now I know that when I google this question I get a series of websites with "top 10 XYZ" listicles and 99% of these are now written by LLMs with dubious sources if any. Do y'all know any websites that actually and reliably test and review the products they make listicles about?

Product Reviews, Online Content

7 points by kouru225 12 days ago | 4 comments

DeCENC is another way to beat web video DRM (theregister.com)
An anti-piracy system to protect online video streams from unauthorized copying is flawed – and can be broken to allow streamed media from Amazon, Netflix, and others to be saved, replayed, and spread at will, we're told.

Video Streaming, Security, Piracy, Online Content

20 points by be_erik 15 days ago | 1 comments

Drowning in Slop: AI Garbage Is Clogging the Internet, and It's Getting Worse (nymag.com)
Slop started seeping into Neil Clarke’s life in late 2022. Something strange was happening at Clarkesworld, the magazine Clarke had founded in 2006 and built into a pillar of the world of speculative fiction. Submissions were increasing rapidly, but “there was something off about them,” he told me recently.

Artificial Intelligence, Online Content, Literature, Publishing, Technology

27 points by haltingproblem 52 days ago | 13 comments

Drowning in Slop. It's clogging the internet with AI garbage (nymag.com)
Slop started seeping into Neil Clarke’s life in late 2022. Something strange was happening at Clarkesworld, the magazine Clarke had founded in 2006 and built into a pillar of the world of speculative fiction. Submissions were increasing rapidly, but “there was something off about them,” he told me recently.

Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction, Publishing, Online Content

9 points by jchook 54 days ago | 2 comments

AI-powered 'undressing' websites are getting sued (theverge.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Lawsuits, Privacy, Technology, Online Content

6 points by belter 97 days ago | 0 comments

Animal Abuse Is Taking over YouTube [video] (youtube.com)

Animal Welfare, YouTube, Online Content, Social Media

13 points by Rinzler89 110 days ago | 0 comments

So You're Thinking About Monetizing Your Blog – Loren's Blog (lorenblog.me)

Blogging, Monetization, Business, Online Content

4 points by janandonly 113 days ago | 3 comments

Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search (torrentfreak.com)