>A hn populated by chatgpt bots would be close to valueless, even if they produced output indistinguishable from the median commentor. False, it would be even

>A hn populated by chatgpt bots would be close to valueless, even if they produced output indistinguishable from the median commentor. False, it would be even more valuable to the typical HN user. (You and I are not typical users.) The typical user lurks and reads comments only. If there were more discussions on more topics for the typical user to read and learn and make up their mind about things; then that would be valuable, even if those discussions were algorithmically generated.