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I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband

609 points · 241 comments · minimaxir

  1. collingreen · · focus · HN ↗
    Very well written both in prose and tone. I'm glad she decided to tell this story. If the author isn't a professional writer I think she could be.

    This is a great "behind the scenes" style look at the actual people behind a viral clip. Luckily they have an extremely strong relationship to help soften the blows here, I'm not sure an average (not even bad!) relationship could come out of something like this unscathed.

    There's something feral in us that comes out from time to time, especially online from the safety of our screens. I found the announcers within the range of good fun but when it gets to people reaching out to break up their marriage or telling him to kill himself it becomes really sobering.

    I think this is part of what people are calling the lonlieness epidemic - despite thousands of screaming voices the whole thing makes me feel hollow and hopeless.

    1. eudamoniac · · focus · HN ↗

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      1. TrueGeek · · focus · HN ↗
        I don't know why you're getting downvoted. There are some very AI-style sentences in this article. GPTZero says "We are highly confident this text was human written and polished with AI"
        1. eudamoniac · · focus · HN ↗
          We've entered the "AI is good and inevitable and only pretentious people would write their own words" phase of the forum.
          1. abustamam · · focus · HN ↗
            I think we've entered the "people claiming other things is AI is getting old" phase of the forum.

            Personally I don't care if it's AI generated or AI assisted. I didn't get any obvious AI tells, and arguing over whether or not it's AI generated doesn't seem to be relevant to the actual topic - strangers telling a man to kill himself based on a contextless TikTok video is not ok.

            1. eudamoniac · · focus · HN ↗
              The topic is "the author could be a professional writer." I'm not allowed to say no, she couldn't? I wouldn't have mentioned AI if not for that.
              1. collingreen · · focus · HN ↗
                Oof maybe I'm losing my ai-dar. This didn't rub me the wrong way on phrasing.
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