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A kid’s fake AI-generated blog fooled tens of thousands. This is how he made it
- chris_overseas 6y agoHere's a link to the Hacker News submission from the blog that made it to #1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817 All of the blog's submissions to Hacker News can be seen here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=false&query=adolos.substack.com&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
- dang 6y agoPlease see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164470 and particularly the top subthread.
- warmfuzzykitten 6y agoThe best part: "...only three or four of the dozens of people who commented on his top post on Hacker News raised suspicions that it might have been generated by an algorithm. All those comments were immediately downvoted by other community members."