Hey ChatGPT, generate a controversed article for my blog. No worries if examples are made up and some information is objectively wrong.

The article's writing style is unbearable and the website is ridden with scammy ads

The issue isn't exactly using some technology, it's more the jarring copy style it outputs. It's extremely impersonal and it signals low care about quality

The AI writing is a big turn-off: if the app is crafted with the same care as the copy on the website, I'm not sure I want to trust the owner with VERY personal data like that :)

If get a chance to read the website / privacy policy you’ll find that I actually don’t have access to any data, you don’t need to sign up to begin using the app. The sales pitch is entirely privacy first :)

But they have to make money somehow! ;)

Screenshots in the README would we nice :) + the writing style in the README gives slop smell

I was coming to look for a comment like this.

It may say more about me than the person writing these type of README's, but if I see more than one or two emojis in a README, I immediately assume it was fully generated rather than written.

Sure, Readme is AI generated not the code :)

If the code is indeed not AI generated, then that's great. But the AI generated readme is not doing the reputation of the project any favors. Also, as others have mentioned, I would definitely want to see a screenshot of a tool like this before I even think about using it.

Congrats on the launch.

Ty!! In next update i will update Readme and include screenshots too.

Very nice name and reference!

I absolutely love the Aphex Twin reference!

You should never rely on AI to do 1, 2 or 3, especially a sloppy model like this.

Everything smells of AI here, is it the world's first slop language?

This blog pranks you with changing titles when you switch tabs (some nsfw), then welcomes you back with a paragraph inciting you to disable Javascript. That's nice, but I actually need Javascript in my browser to do real stuff.

got to admit, as a prank it's pretty funny.

fwiw, it's trivially easy to block javascript per site today with uBlock Origin. Firefox + UBlock Origin really is the panacea of a de-shittified web.

Indeed - and the author goes on to show a screenshot of Google Trends which, I'm sure, won't work without JavaScript turned on.

It's like 3 lengthy paragraphs that don't even get to the point until the end. The writing wasn't particularly good in the first place, so I just closed the tab when I saw that.

That's what NoScript is for, so you can whitelist the things that need it.

Do modern browsers even still offer the built-in option to disable JavaScript unilaterally?

Chrome does

More important: Why does that person mobs people for using javascript, but then only displays an ugly trashy side when you disable it?

Holy that is so funny

I felt just a tiny bit violated by that. Why does this person care about whether I have JS enabled? What’s the term for author’s affliction? Militant techno-minimalism?

The cynicism is also pretty strong, in the first call-out, asking HN audience to jump to the TLDR, because?

Yes, I remembered that other nut-case that shows a NSFW image if the HTTP referrer is from HN.

f'ing annoying and pretentious.