Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made

janaagaard

What are the rules? Is it okay to use autocomplete? Are spell checkers accepted? What if I used an AI chatbot to figure out something instead of a traditional search engine?

Induane

I have began to use AI to flesh out unittests and honestly am kind of digging that part. All the actual code is still me though.

steno132

This is a horrible take if for no other reason that digital intelligence is one of humanity's greatest achievements. It took thousands of years of advancements across chemistry, physics, material science to reach the point in the tech tree we are today. There's absolutely nothing wrong with using AI and it's something we should be celebrating.

cheevly

When I use AI to produce a work, it’s human-made, just the same as when I use a computer to synthesize digital works using human-developed automation tools like word processors. All built on top of operating systems that manipulate bytes of all natural human-made data.

skyberrys

From the name I was expecting to be humans doing things to force work. Like my child pouring milk on the table. Now I get to do work cleaning. It's human-made work. It's pretty easy to make work for others.

whyenot

I'm not entirely sure what "100% human-made" even means. Also, what is the difference between 90% and 100%? Is any website (of the modern era) 100% human made?

vjvjvjvjghv

I don't understand what "human-made" means. Are they going to write assembly code themselves or are they taking a big pile of sand to create some transistors? I understand some of the concerns about AI but they are either a problem of our economic system or of people not caring about what they are doing. Economic problems are probably the most important because robotics and AI have the potential to break our current capitalist system.

phyzix5761

Its ironic that the 2 apps being showcased are a sobriety tracking app and a brewery brand.

ChrisArchitect

Reminds of Books By People https://booksbypeople.org ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45713367 )

morpheos137

I don't mean to piss on your parade but llm generation is human output just like a car welded by robots is a human product. This contrived dualism between llm generated things and human generated things makes the llm into an independent agent (it is not, it is a statistical approximator) and denies the human origin of automated creations. do we say numbers calculated by hand are less authentic than by boolean logic? do we say books printed by press are less human in origin than medieval calligraphy? Ai is a tool. Its output is the result of human intention / attention.

bigstrat2003

This is a really good idea. I have zero interest in seeing something that someone couldn't be bothered to actually make themselves. And while we can't control the fact that people choose to outsource their creativity and thinking to a machine, we can choose to celebrate and highlight those who do not. I hope we see more of this as genAI becomes more and more of a blight on the quality of work out there.

oldnetguy

As a person who likes hand made items I'm for this. I will pay a premium for someone who hand makes an item. Bonus if it's someone older who provides old school craftsmanship.

laserdancepony

I like this project and the negative responses here are reinforcing me in this decision.

ticulatedspline

If the only interesting thing about a work is it's provenance is that work actually valuable? actually in all honesty human works are predominantly crap, and a bit passé. If I'm going to visit a site whose whole shtick is provenance I'd rather see some really, objectively good, ai stuff. that would be way more interesting.

vjvjvjvjghv

I find it interesting how the techies are suddenly losing their minds over technology. We have killed a ton of other people’s jobs over the last few decades and made excellent money doing so. Now it seems it’s our turn

g-b-r

The comments on this are so utterly depressing

piloto_ciego

Time and time again I see these people spazzing out about human made work, as though humans should have to do any work at all that they don't freely choose to! Like, there's some moral puritan value to toiling in the code mines until you wither and die. We're finally approaching a world where humans could work less and the only thought people can think about is how jobs might go away or some other such bullshit. Capitalist Realism has gotten so bad that I've seen anarchists cheering on copyright law and "so called" leftists wishing for the halcyon days of 30 years ago - just like their parents did in the 90s. It's wild how conservative of an era we're in right now.