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Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made (https://www.human-made.work)

47 points by supryan about 7 hours ago | 48 comments | View on ycombinator

laserdancepony 3 minutes ago |

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

steno132 about 3 hours ago |

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.

janaagaard about 4 hours ago |

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?

oldnetguy about 1 hour ago |

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.

whyenot about 2 hours ago |

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?

cheevly about 2 hours ago |

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 about 2 hours ago |

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.

Induane about 3 hours ago |

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.

phyzix5761 about 2 hours ago |

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

vjvjvjvjghv about 2 hours ago |

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.

bigstrat2003 about 1 hour ago |

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.

morpheos137 about 1 hour ago |

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.

ChrisArchitect about 1 hour ago |

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