Hacker News with Generative AI: Online Content

Amateur photographers hope to fix Wikipedia's 'terrible' pictures (bbc.com)
Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world but, by the admission of some of its own volunteer editors, it suffers from a persistent problem - terrible pictures, particularly of celebrities.

Wikipedia, Photography, Celebrities, Online Content, Volunteerism

6 points by pseudolus 4 days ago | 0 comments

Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think (usher.dev)
We are being boiled like frogs. It happened gradually, one algorithmic tweak at a time. What started as a way to connect with friends has become a system that gives the corporations that run social media control over what we consume and the ability to subtly shape how we think.

Social Media, Algorithms, Digital Wellbeing, Online Content, Manipulation

837 points by tom_usher 25 days ago | 313 comments

Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That'll Lead to Censorship (eff.org)
Congress has begun debating the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146), a bill that seeks to speed up the removal of a troubling type of online content: non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII. In recent years, concerns have also grown about the use of digital tools to alter or create such images, sometimes called deepfakes.

Legislation, Online Content, Censorship, Privacy

119 points by archagon 26 days ago | 38 comments

List of Hoaxes in Wikipedia Articles (wikipedia.org)
This is a list of known historical hoaxes created on the English Wikipedia. It is not for known hoaxes which are notable in their own right, such as the Piltdown Man. Its purpose is to document hoaxes on Wikipedia, in order to improve our understanding of them and our ability to detect them. For the purpose of this list, a hoax is defined as a clear and deliberate attempt to deceptively present false information as fact.

Wikipedia, Hoaxes, History, Information Accuracy, Online Content

7 points by bubble12345 60 days ago | 2 comments

The online porn free-for-all is coming to an end (theatlantic.com)
Three decades into the internet era, the Supreme Court finally appears ready to uphold age-verification laws.

Online Content, Law, Censorship, Supreme Court, Internet

10 points by GeoAtreides 69 days ago | 2 comments

Supreme Court wrestles with explosion of online porn (thehill.com)
The Supreme Court weighed whether an explosion in online pornography requires repudiating the court’s precedents concerning sexual content as the justices Wednesday heard arguments in a challenge to Texas’s age-verification law for porn websites.

Supreme Court, Censorship, Online Content, Law, Pornography

6 points by classichasclass 77 days ago | 1 comments

In 2025, blogs will be the last bastion of the Good Internet (theintrinsicperspective.com)
Late last year, The Intrinsic Perspective breezed past 50,000 subscribers. Given the scale of the internet, this website is no vast peak, but for a lone author, I deem it a success. The Paris Review, a literary magazine I grew up reading, has 50,000 subscribers. Running a marathon takes about 50,000 steps. Go 50,000 miles in a straight line and you will travel twice around the Earth.

Blogs, Internet, Online Content, Writing

20 points by paulpauper 90 days ago | 9 comments

Google Search Changes Are Killing Websites in an Age of AI Spam (cnet.com)
Google's major search algorithm updates this past year have left many smaller websites with no other choice than to lay off staff. The internet is worse for it.

Google Search, Online Content, Digital Media

4 points by jsheard 100 days ago | 0 comments

How Bad Is Link Rot? (brainbaking.com)
There’s no denying that online content disappears. Depending on the type and thoroughness of the study, reports claim that 38% to 66.5% of webpages that existed a decade ago are dead. Sometimes we’re treated with a 3xx redirect code but more often than not they’re simply gone forever if it wasn’t for the Internet Archive.

Internet Archive, Web Content, Data Loss, Online Content

17 points by ZacnyLos 102 days ago | 6 comments

The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it (2022) (unherd.com)
No one wants to be a bad person, and you probably felt pretty bad when you saw the heart-breaking appeal and just carried on clicking. Wikipedia is midway through a six-week fund-raising drive in Anglophone regions including the United States, the UK, New Zealand and Australia. The banner ads beg for “just £2”, which doesn’t sound like much, for all that free information. But before you start feeling too guilty, it’s worth considering some facts.

Wikipedia, Donations, Online Content, Charity, Philanthropy

49 points by xqcgrek2 108 days ago | 19 comments

Malaysia's internet crackdown forces creators to self-censor (restofworld.org)
New regulations give the government more control over online content.Authorities say the measures are aimed at curbing hate speech and bullying.Creators say they are starting to self-censor to avoid crackdown and that the new rules make it harder to make a living.

Malaysia, Censorship, Online Content, Social Media

8 points by surprisetalk 111 days ago | 0 comments

Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study (news.mit.edu)
People struggling with their mental health are more likely to browse negative content online, and in turn, that negative content makes their symptoms worse, according to a series of studies by researchers at MIT.

Mental Health, Online Content, Research, Psychology

191 points by topato 116 days ago | 161 comments

Age Verification Laws Are Just a Path Towards Full Ban on Porn, Proponent Admits (techdirt.com)
It’s never about the children. Supporters of age verification laws, book bans, drag show bans, and abortion bans always claim they’re doing these things to protect children. But it’s always just about themselves. They want to impose their morality on other adults. That’s all there is to it.

Politics, Censorship, Online Content, Morality

8 points by coloneltcb 133 days ago | 1 comments

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 145 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 148 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 185 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 187 days ago | 2 comments

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

Artificial Intelligence, Lawsuits, Privacy, Technology, Online Content

6 points by belter 229 days ago | 0 comments

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

Animal Welfare, YouTube, Online Content, Social Media

13 points by Rinzler89 242 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 246 days ago | 3 comments

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