I think you point out something really important: there real value isn't the data, it's in surfacing the useful data.

For amateur astronomers, an interesting question is whether there is a satellite above me that I can see tonight (and when / where)? For professionals, the literal million dollar questions are more like: are there any satellites on a collision course? Which satellites have moved recently and why? Is there a dime-sized piece of metal somewhere out there that could hit my (employer's) satellite?

I have a different take....

I don't really care that they all look alike as long as the sites usable to me for its intended purposes. Honestly, having each site have its own brand is annoying to me.

For years of dealing with badly designed sites, I wished then that they _copy_ a better design even if it looked generic. Even copying a simple but usable design would have made many sites easier to use.

I don't want the site to win an art contest, I want the information to make a decision. At a min just be easy in the eyes and intuitive to use and get the info.

The thing most people seem to be missing is that ai does the work, but still needs to be guided. When it comes to design, at our little company, our main job is to direct the style and not tell it to make something. So we are actively directing it towards specific, by us determined, styles. We did this for numerous companies [1]. So yes, Ai generated dashboards can look really amazing, but the person directing them has to spend time creative directing it.

[1] https://designshippers.com

I think it's as simple as "website builder tool has a default theme to go with unless told to use something else".

That’s not an LLM issue, it is a human curation issue. The LLM only does what the human behind the wheel tells it to do.

It’s because all sites are made by the same “person” now.

If you get past the anthropomorphism, it’s basically that Claude is just a set of knowledge, including opinions (things they’d more likely do than other things) and everyone is getting the same person to make their sites which is why they all look the same.

Also the same reason everything ends up with the same tech stack (if you don’t steer it specifically) which probably contributes to why GitHub is overwhelmed.

Of course, whoever is driving the LLM can always prompt it to style the site in a different way, but I guess most people never do.

yes, I saw that and hit back in a second.

So it's your fault then? Had you not published the site, the AI would not have trained on it. Your one site ruined it for everyone!!! Hope you're proud of yourself /s

Seems to have taken several open-source pieces of data (live satellite feeds, NASA UAP files) and combined them into a vaguely conspiracy-ish website. It's really odd, but has the feel of old-timey conspiracy websites spruced up with vibe coding.

I expect that building the satellite viewer is now just a few dollars worth of tokens. I built something like this a few years ago, and it took a week of work. It's cool that the marginal cost of satisfying your curiousity about where things are in space has dropped so close to zero, but don't be fooled into thinking this website lets you in on some vast conspiracy.

Where's your footage of tracking something at high speed under high magnification? Most people can't track a rocket launch moving in a fairly straight line. Even if you're using your device, the auto stabilizing software features make it very difficult to track something smoothly by hand. Ever notice the lag when zoomed in? 4K resolution might be ubiquitous on consumer devices, but it's not in military gun cameras.

There have been so many catastrophic accidents along human history despite all its advancements, I don't find this particularly implausible. Also across sci-fi, the stranded in space or on a distant world is a common trope without your criticism broadly applied either.

Driving on the freeway is easy. Driving in city streets is harder, and parallel parking...well, let's just say that the Martians haven't learned that yet.

A possible answer to your second question is that satellites (of sufficient size/ brightness) could be mistaken for UAPs. But that may not be what this website is suggesting.

I could believe that aliens would come to visit.

But the way they supposedly come is silly. They fart around doing random nonsense, not revealing themselves but also not hiding themselves very well, and there are a bunch of blurry ambiguous photos but not a single clear one, AND this all just happened to start right as humanity began to engage in space travel itself? It’s ridiculous.