[bilekas]

I don't know if it's YC specifically who 'care' as you say. If you see the launches : https://www.ycombinator.com/launches

There are an ungodly number of AI based submissions, if the pool consists of for example 80% AI based, it stands to reason YC will probably be choosing between a lot of AI tech. Almost like survivor bias.

If the new trend of submissions is AI, I don't see why YC should say : "No we want to improve humanity" . Doesn't seem like that's their interest really.

[conartist6]

They're openly courting it. Read through https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

[BadCookie]

Wow. Every request is AI related! I thought maybe the systems programming one wasn’t… but alas, I was mistaken.

[bilekas]

I stand corrected. Well then I guess the onslaught of AI slop is here to stay for a while at least. Great.

[user_7832]

I think it’s interesting and funny (in a funny-weird, not funny-haha) way that despite YC and Paul Graham being so respected here, they (at least YC, don’t know how much say PH still has) are promoting this AI slop thing.

PG et al probably care more for returns than quality - not saying that’s intrinsically good or bad - but that’s not at all the ideal many hold him as.

[bilekas]

Thats a tough one honestly, if you're an incubator, you almost want to always be at the ground level for those that will take off,YC has a history of that. Looking back I'm not sure anyone was a "visionary" to see the potential but maybe it was a case of threw enough ** at the wall and some stuck.

Either way I don't think it's a bad thing, small startups should have the ability to flourish and fail. I am just surprised it's all AI at the moment when we still have problems left unsolved.