Creators Feeling Judged by AI Skepticism
Creators are experiencing a growing sense of invalidation and suspicion due to the pervasive skepticism and reflexive rejection of AI-generated content. This manifests as accusations of AI use, dismissive feedback, and a general lack of appreciation for their efforts, leading to feelings of sadness and discouragement. The phenomenon is fueled by a tribalistic online culture that readily condemns anything associated with AI.
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“There is a real lesson here for builders: the hook can be formulaic, but the distribution problem is not. If the only audience is other makers, every post starts to sound like ad copy. The better play is usually: build in public here for product…”
“There is a real lesson here for builders: the hook can be formulaic, but the distribution problem is not. If the only audience is other makers, every post starts to sound like ad copy. The better play is usually: build in public here for product feedback, then go to the niche subreddit/community with a genuinely useful answer and no hard sell. Harder, slower, but much less cringe.”
“Think of it as a milestone, like the first scratch on a new car. Now you can stop worrying about it and just keep making stuff.”
“I think a lot of people are using AI too casually for everything. Society is going to end up even dumber.”
“Ugh, I know. I'm almost tempted to leave this sub because of all the AI posts, honestly. SO thankful the actual Obsidian is not like that.”
“As someone who has been in a field that, by and large, got swallowed up by AI, I'd say there's a big chunk of the writers/translators/graphic artists who have had their work devalued because "AI can do the same thing faster/cheaper." The truth is that AI can write or design something that's "good enough," but if you don't have the judgment (which only comes with experience) to know what's *good*, you'll take what the AI tells you or designs for you at”
“If for no other reason, it took almost zero effort to produce. Spend your viewing time giving credit to a worthy creator. It's often stolen directly from someone else who did put in work to create something. It can also be full of bogus 'facts'. The BS ones where a dog or cat is allegedly greeting a long absent owner, or 'choosing ' a new owner are totally ridiculous.”
“I would but I don’t see AI in my feed, and I’m certainly not gonna seek it out lol.”
“Yeah man. This sub is like 50% people that can’t use the search bar and 50% bots/vibecoding shills.”
“Obviously they don’t think AI stuff is bad. Think on the second-order implications of what they said.”
“Oh I did, but unfortunately I clicked the wrong button. Are you open to forgive me the way of creating the post and speak about the topic?”
“Either ai is destroying YouTube or AI is getting No ctr and Views. Depends WHO you ask. Whats the difference.”
“Good luck getting any kind of actual moderation. The one "active" moderator has made it clear that they want as little here as possible, leading to a real wild-west of garbage.”
“Honestly sounds like 80+% of the SWEs at Indeed until many of them got forced into data labeling/double checking AI code.”
“Oh wow. Makes sense and it's smart. Thanks for the inspiration, I had no idea about this possibility”
“A lot of web pages do look the same; this was true even before AI though... I think as long as it doesn't distract from the message it's alright. Kind of like text. Sometimes I read text that is annoyingly AI generated, but most of the time I detect it but don't care because it's tight prose that gets the point across in a way that a human-generated rambling mess might not... Do you think customers really care about AI generated homepages? I'd reckon most people probably can&”
“Good job developing your idea. Downvoted for the misuse of this particular sub.”
“It doesn’t matter. Any feature that isn’t an AI feature has been deprioritized for years.”
“Seeing as you can't even read subreddit rules, i would have no faith in whatever you're trying to pitch”
“> Advice and information subreddits have gone to shit because of AI usage>but instead someone to relay the question to ChatGPT and post the result as if it is their own hard earned knowledge and insight.>people aren’t just refusing to say “I don’t know” they’re actively seeking out opportunities to pretend they know things.What? This is a joke right? Advice and information subreddits have been shallow blind leading blind crap like that and have been for at least a decade. The vote mechanism p”
“Wrong again. I didn’t use Grok, and I hardly use Elon’s AI models for anything LOLAlso, sadly, your common predilection on HN to ridicule and scorn everything is biasing you against the most important set of solutions in AI. It ain’t about making the models safer - more aligned - or refusals. For what it’s worth I’ll try to share one more article with you, but I doubt you’ll get it: https://safebots.ai/aboutSo you’d have me engage in “discussion” by which you mean criticizing work others do. Sor”
“So everyone knows you posts 2hours and 30 minutes apart as a minimum. I've been posting 5-6x a day. I want to push this. Can I post 9 times a day? Or will that get me shadow banned? Am I a pioneer and nobody really knows? submitted by /u/No-Competition6691 [link] [comments]”
“15 years is a long run man. hope the next chapter treats you better than this stuff did.”
“This is probably the MOST obvious AI slop content I’ve seen in a while, with all the AI cliches you can cram into a post. Many of the others learned to tone down the dramatics and had more natural verbiage (still easy to clock but at least didn’t sound so jarring and corny)”
“Not all AI is slop Almost every single person in the world currently disagrees with you. If I needed an ai slopshit take, I would go to literally any app on my phone and get their bullshit ai slopshit take by default. We need to preserve natural human discourse. I say this as a staff engineer building resilient infra for AI/ML workloads for a fortune 50.”
Hey /u/Optimus_Spider07 , If your post is a screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation, please reply to this message with the conversation link or prompt. If your post is a DALL-E 3 image…
“AI people have been saying “white collar jobs have two years left” the same way climate change activists have been saying “nyc will be underwater in five years” for decades straight”
“This is a big part of the reason im closing shop after 15 years. Over it. Life is too short.”
“Yes and you specifically misunderstood my point but I’m guessing you do that more often than not. I don’t mind if you stop commenting Karen.”
“What's AI Slop about it? the voice? why does that even matter lmao, the long videos thumbnails? sure looks horrible but why does that matter when it's comes to the story? in my opinion his videos are very addicting due to how unpredictable they are and how he perfectly keeps the tension on, and no the animation is clearly not AI.”
“I'm sure he is a nice guy, but the ai thumbnails are a letdown. Lazy and dumb content but entertaining to watch”
“I happened across this thread using Google Search. (I think my search was "is an AI-moderated social network a good idea" or something.) And I see that this thread is a few weeks old, but I wanted to mention that you're not the only one thinking about this, and I think it's potentially a good idea, too. I'm old enough to remember when the internet felt fun and playful. And I'm a software engineer, so I know what AI is capable of. I think technology might be to a point w”
“While I'm wary of vibe-coded stuff that uses my data and especially my bank info, I completely agree about the rest. It's a low barrier way to create some cool stuff.”
“Well, it's bad for the reasons you mention, but good for the reasons taht it delivers something other people don't know how to make, even with AI at their fingertips. Most of my friends would not know how to make Obsidian Themes or Plugins with AI. They see .js at the end of a file and give up. They do however understand how to download plugins and themes. So what now if someone has a good idea but not the technical proficiency to properly develop and maintain? They may still create some”
AI is bringing us back into the old days of shareware / shovelware.
“I remember this being brought up, but it felt more like a needless dig. The thing that was problematic was just him pretending to know more about programming than he actually did while also lying and/or exaggerating his accomplishments as one. This was pointed out at the time when piratesoftware was scrutinized for similar reasons, including from mutahar.”
“These gurus are always in on undiscovered and wide open for profit niches like faceless ai voiceovers of movie clips, finance, and health fearmongering.”
“In the age of gratuitously encouraging LLMs and constant slop I sometimes miss the way in which stack exchange punished people for putting in low effort.I recently asked a LLM a question simply out of newfound habit. I realized while reading the line that this command seemed very familiar. I had bookmarked the exact same command in stack exchange many years ago. Of course the fact that stack exchange traffic has drastically declined came into my head. As well as the fact that this was predicate”
“"Blanket claims like "Everybody" are trivially falsifiable."As are claims like "No one" or "99.9%"How many times per week are such claims made on HN and in similar forums with respect to software and hardware curl https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=no+one&tags=comment |grep -Eo '\"nbHits\":[0-9]+' Perhaps the term "everybody" is just a figure of speech used in an online title. Can we, should we, forgive HN commenters for making 47,000+ trivially falsifiable claimsHow often do HN comm”
“I never understood the point if having the unfathomable churn of thousands of new questions per day. The value of SO to me was always a knowledge base with reputation mechanics, and that did not change. I still default to searching before asking AI.”
“- Open issue on GitHub issues: Maintainer closes issue citing "Bug reports only"- Open question on SO: Moderators close because it's too specific to a library- Ask on IRC: Get piled on for not using the right vocabulary and your IP isn't masked- Ask the LLM: Get hallucinated answer based on old API docs- Ask technical lead: Get burned for asking basic question and put on PIP- Ask my mom: She doesn't know enough computer to know the answer, but in explaining the problem to her, I finally figured”