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Ask HN: Do we need guidelines on posting ChatGPT responses in comments?
I get the temptation to do it. But as a reader, the walls of text are becoming increasingly annoying. Proper etiquette IMO is to link to an image, or even better, a shareable link from OpenAI (not sure if they added this yet).
As a bonus, we can avoid polluting the HN corpus of GPT-5 with output from GPT-3! :) I suspect our comments have some heavy weights in their training data, and it would be nice to keep it that way. I don't want to spend 2024 talking to a simulacrum of r/ProgrammerHumor
@dang, if you see this, what do you think? Time to update the guidelines?
- ThrowawayR2 4y agoThis was already addressed by dang in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628.
- gus_massa 4y agoFrom the comment by dang: > The best solution, though, is to raise the community bar for what counts as a good comment. Whatever ChatGPT (or similar) can generate, humans need to do better. If we reach the point where the humans simply can't do better, well, then it won't matter. But that's a ways off.* Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/
- TechBro8615 4y agoThanks for that, although it's slightly different from what I'm asking. That thread seems to be about banning generated comments. But I'm concerned with the good-faith instances of it, where commenters are arguing about ChatGPT and pasting example responses to make their point. This gets out of hand quickly and fills the screen with text my eyes are already learning to skim over ("<repeated prompt>"... <multiple paragraphs> ... "Overall..."). I hope as a community that we self-moderate this kind of comment and develop some etiquette around it, like linking to the response and only quoting the portions of it necessary to win whatever battle you're waging in the comments section.