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I use LLMs in my fiction writing; and before the wolves come out to shred me to pieces: The LLM never gets to see my writing and doesn't do any of the writing for me. I use LLMs in other ways.

One of the first uses I discovered was to have it identify my own blandness. I'll give it a general scenario from my writing and ask it for ten resolutions to that scenario. If my own resolution appears, I realize at best my resolution is bland and at worst cliche.

by vunderba7 hours ago|

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This is eerily similar to something I do with Hacker News stories that hit the front page. I run the post against a couple of LLMs (Mixtral, GPT-OSS, Qwen3, etc.) with the directive to produce a set of 20 of the most likely top-level replies.

I then wait a few days, and then use a couple of systems (embeddings, deBERTa, etc.) to rank comments by novelty against the LLM-produced replies.

by bluefirebrand8 hours ago|

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Why would anyone bother creating or publishing anything new on the internet now that we know that AI companies are just waiting to hoover it up, without compensation, to enrich their models?

Seeing how predatory these companies are in their scraping and then continuing to publish where they can scrape is the absolute height of stupidity

by pulvinar8 hours ago|

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I'd like to see the internet return to those who aren't putting it out there for money, so AI companies (and anyone else) hoovering it up wouldn't bother them. Sharing should be the point.

Would also result in fewer sites with ads -- yay!

by bluefirebrand5 hours ago|

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Why wouldn't it bother you even if you weren't putting it put there for money?

Sharing is great. Having everything you share taken and monetized/weaponized is terrible

I'm looking for ways to build community that is resilient against LLMs, both scraping and also contributing. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your point of view) that means it can no longer happen online

by cgriswald6 hours ago|

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I’ll say a lot of information is cheap and what often matters is presentation. I still visit Wikipedia even though I ask LLMs things.

by sodapopcan8 hours ago|

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Physical media is already making a comeback, so let's hope it does with a vengeance and with it, more and more live events.