Please do not link to headphonesty site

[amirm]

Hello everyone. While we have a very generous policy as far as linking to other sites, it has been brought to my attention that content on headphonesty . com is mostly AI generated and clickbait. So I have changed the forum software to block references to the site.

 

[SoySalsaPicante]

It is a TON of clickbait!

 

[JSmith]

It's a horrible site too, packed with advertising and banners... good move.


JSmith

 

[oleg87]

Thank goodness.

 

[Aperiodic]

As goes headphonesty, so goes pretty much the entire Internet. Been on farcebook recently?

 

[Chrispy]

Bravo

 

[Rja4000]

Hello everyone. While we have a very generous policy as far as linking to other sites, it has been brought to my attention that content on headphonesty . com is mostly AI generated and clickbait. So I have changed the forum software to block references to the site.

Well done!
I'm not in favor of blocking websites in general, but this one is really everything I hate: systematically using and distorting other sites' content and deliberately creating confusion for the sole purpose of attracting attention.
Really unhealthy.

 

[desutruction]

Good call. Genuinely terrible website. Let's not give them any more clicks.

 

[Steven Holt]

Thank you Amir, that website is not worthy of ASR. They show up on my FB page and I can't stand it.

 

[Keith_W]

YES!! FINALLY!!! It misrepresents people and creates controversy for no reason. I hope the website dies!

 

[Mnyb]

Yes the latest snippets linked on ASR was some benchmark quotes about ISO’s that probably was snipped out one of thier articles ? Probably without any consent

 

[Hiten]

Good move.
In the past that website had lots of Charles Rodrigues Audiophile cartoons recreated with AI and put with their own name on it.

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[respice finem]

Some kind of warning would be practical for such cases, like "this site uses AI and even when it doesn't, it's spreading disinfo".
But imagine the whining about allegedly suppressing the "truth" (they already have the word "honesty" in their name)

 

[Svensson]

Apart from the shockingly terrible content, those websites that bombard you with tripe, adverts and low brow AI material, also typically also most likely to be big on tracking and privacy invading elements.

 

[phoenixsong]

Should have been named headphony. Saves them 3 letters and from being est

 

[Keith_W]

(they already have the word "honesty" in their name)

They do??? I thought it was "Headphone Sty".

 

[respice finem]

They do??? I thought it was "Headphone Sty".

The problem, more generally speaking, with such sites is the mix of truths, half-truths and plain BS.
And, LLMs will suck it up, so it might become increasingly hard to tell one from another, even for the "educated".

 

[welwynnick]

Excellent.
The less AI on ASR the better.

 

[somebodyelse]

Some of their older articles were actually informative, but I guess we can point to an archived version of those (archive.org) where relevant.

 

[ErVikingo]

Yes the latest snippets linked on ASR was some benchmark quotes about ISO’s that probably was snipped out one of thier articles ? Probably without any consent

@amirm I posted that link. I was not aware. Thanks for the heads up and please accept my apologies. Feel free to delete.