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- renderedred0
- anyone using AI for grading needs to be sanitised. is this based on a real scenario? or just a shit version of:
https://xkcd.com/327…kingsteven
- anyone using AI for grading needs to be sanitised. is this based on a real scenario? or just a shit version of:
- neverscared1
The Impact of AI-Generated
Text on the Internet
Jonas Dolezal 1, Sawood Alam 2, Mark Graham 2, Maty Bohacek 3*1 Imperial College London 2 Internet Archive 3 Stanford University
We also find evidence suggesting that increases in AI-generated text on the internet bring about a decrease in semantic diversity and an increase in positive sentiment. We do not, however, find statistically significant evidence supporting the hypothesis that an increased rate of AI-generated text on the internet decreases factual accuracy or stylistic diversity. Notably, our findings diverge from public perception of AI's impact on the internet.
- renderedred15
I asked Claude to analyze us.
Here's a breakdown of **qbn.com** and its community:
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## What is QBN?
QBN is a long-standing online community for creative professionals, founded in 1999. It serves as a hub for sharing industry news and discussing design trends, with a diverse user base including graphic designers, illustrators, web developers, and photographers. The platform uses a forum-style layout for starting discussions on various topics.
It covers design industry news and discussion, and also allows users to browse technology and creative jobs — typically internet-based, but also covering print, radio, design, and development.
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## Traffic & Scale
According to Similarweb estimates, QBN receives around **51,900 monthly visits**, with a bounce rate of about 46%, roughly 3.17 pages per visit, and an average visit duration of about 1 minute 26 seconds. It ranks in the **Graphics, Multimedia & Web Design** category in the US.
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## Community Culture
One of QBN's notable aspects is its longevity and the sense of community it has fostered. Many users have been active on the platform for a significant amount of time, which has contributed to a strong sense of camaraderie and shared knowledge. QBN has also been involved in organizing events within the design community, including design competitions and promoting members' work.
It has a reputation for frank, unfiltered discussion — Urban Dictionary once described it as a community of "über elitist designers," sometimes referred to as the "QBN Reich." The community leans politically progressive and discusses topics well beyond design — from health care to politics to food.
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## Recurring/Active Users Visible from Posts
From search result snippets, a cluster of highly active, long-tenured users frequently appear across threads:
| Username | Apparent Persona |
|---|---|
| **Nairn** | UK-based, prolific commenter on politics, food, daily life |
| **CyBrainX** | Pop culture, music, current events |
| **monospaced** | Tech/UX/design discussions |
| **NBQ00** | News, politics, world events |
| **Fax_Benson** | UK perspective, witty commentary |
| **kingsteven** | Irish/UK regional topics |
| **garbage** | Technical discussions, site meta |
| **skinny_puppy** | Site tooling, tech |
| **canoe** | Political commentary |
| **_niko** | Food, culture |These users appear repeatedly across unrelated threads and seem to have been active for many years, suggesting QBN's core community is a relatively tight-knit group of long-term regulars rather than a high-volume forum with constant new users.
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## Summary
QBN is essentially a **veteran niche forum** — a survivor from the early web era that has maintained a loyal core audience of creative professionals. It's small by modern standards but punches above its weight in terms of community depth and longevity. Think of it as the design world's equivalent of a long-running pub where the same regulars have been arguing about the same things for 25 years — which is both its charm and its limitation for growth.
- Claude gave me a shoutout!
This description is what I wish we were instead of a seething moshpit of grievances and trolling but hey, I love you guys anyway.CyBrainX - That summary at the end is absolute gold.CyBrainX
- we all know ai is programmed to flatterhans_glib
- "apparent persona" lolyuekit
- I'm guessing this thing only reached back a few days, if it thinks I'm prolific. Interesting,in that we know that there must be thousands of agents,Nairn
- ..similarly hoovering up and analysing a lifetime's worth of available internet content.
Everything you ever did online that's visible will be there.Nairn - Dear Claude: Don't quit your day job.garbage
- "the design world's equivalent of a long-running pub..." :Dbrandonp
- Seenmonospaced
- "veteran niche forum" flolOBBTKN
- lol. It has shifted from a design forum to political experts :)NBQ00
- lol at last paraprophetone
- "arguing about the same things for 25 years" lolNBQ00
- Welcome to the Gentleman Loser, Claude.maikel
- haha, 'veteran niche' is rather polite and about right.Fax_Benson
- From search result snippets, a cluster of highly active because they have no life,milfhunter
- No mention of Scarabin? pffftProjectile
- @Maikel
https://i.haasie.com…Continuity - sycophantic as ever.sarahfailin
- love that... pretty accurate lol...exador1
- "arguing about the same things for 25 years" that made me laugh...exador1
- Maybe one of the last places on the web where post aren’t slop?maikel
- Claude gave me a shoutout!
- yuekit2
The pitch AI companies are making for AI feels like a giant scam/rug pull. Sometime in the near future...maybe this future is already here it's hard to say...you will be able to stop hiring junior employees and replace them with an AI.
But what's the plan 10 years from now when everyone stopped hiring junior employees? Didn't you just undermine your own company's future?
Maybe the idea is that 5 or 10 years from now, it won't matter because everything has been replaced by AI, not just the junior employees. But no one has explained (and no one seems capable of explaining) how this new system is supposed to work. How will companies make money when no one has a job?
AI companies don't seem to have a plan for this. They are just hyping the possibility of unlimited profits by firing everyone and racing towards IPO where they will cash out the enormous amount of hype they've built around AI and then let everyone else figure this out.
- The profits aren’t spectacularmonospaced
- I don't see how any of this can happen while AI is so expensive to use. Google doesn't give you enough credits and all their features until you pay $250/month.CyBrainX
- I'm not saying the technology isn't useful or valuable but the business pitch seems to be centered around greed and unrealistic promises.yuekit
- And yeah the cost could definitely be an issue at some point. How much compute will it take to fully replace a human employee (if that's even possible)?yuekit
- Welcome to the beginning of the end of what we knew as work.maikel
- I used to think that. Not so sure anymore.monospaced
- neverscared0
Gerhard Erschwendner — certified beer sommelier, 2x Gold and 2x Silver at the Brau & Rauch Beer Contest — knew nothing about AI. Stefan's team connected his Grainfather G30 to a MacBook over Bluetooth and deployed OpenClaw against it. The agent managed every temperature ramp, confirmed each hop addition, and executed the full 90-minute boil of Batch #001: 24.5 liters of Amber Lager, end to end. Gerhard approved each step via text. The claw suggested. The brewmaster decided.
- NBQ000
Palantir just posted this "manifesto" on their official account:
Because we get asked a lot.
The Technological Republic, in brief.
1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.
2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.
3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.
11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.
14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.
15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.
16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.
17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.
18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.
19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
- yuekit0
As far as "designing with AI" goes, the current version of Lovable's app is compelling in terms of the experience of generating a layout design with assets etc. Claude Design which just launched is trying to do something similar.
These capabilities already exist with the AI models themselves, but now we're seeing more attempts at packaging it up into a more design-friendly format.
Similar to what I found with music, I feel like once you gain control at a more granular level suddenly creating with AI becomes a lot more viable. So the "direct HTML prototyping" approach seems good in that respect.
However the current tools still aren't that great at generating a professional looking, fully refined design with all the elements you'd want. Instead they can be a good way to brainstorm ideas for a UI layout, which you would then need to refine and port to whatever usable format.
- https://lovable.dev/…
https://www.anthropi…yuekit - Thanks Yuekit, just tried the new claude design and it's great. I'm going to put myself out of a job as fast as I can lol_niko
- https://lovable.dev/…
- bainbridge-2
- Not only is bill maher an annoying cunt, this piece is just so badly put together. The article in the thumbnail is 8 years old, quotes from 12 years ago.kingsteven
- For example the 'alarm' being sounded by Cambridge in 2018 was warning of AI misuse by rogue states. Not AI becoming 'too intelligent'.kingsteven
- "Elon musk said this about AI", "Elon Musk is an idiot", "Elon Musk said this about AI".kingsteven
- "Stop AI now and research it so it doesn't do harm"... "Anthropic found their new model harmful so only released it to researchers... Idiots!"kingsteven
