Hacker News with Generative AI: Online Content

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 2 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 15 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 25 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 27 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 33 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 36 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 41 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 58 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 70 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 73 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 110 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 112 days ago | 2 comments

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

Artificial Intelligence, Lawsuits, Privacy, Technology, Online Content

6 points by belter 155 days ago | 0 comments

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

Animal Welfare, YouTube, Online Content, Social Media

13 points by Rinzler89 167 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 171 days ago | 3 comments

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