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Yeah I mean if AI HN comments start to appear does that really matter in the end. Ie there’s already a lot of noise in the form of low quality comments, and the
by nwoli 4y ago
Yeah I mean if AI HN comments start to appear does that really matter in the end. Ie there’s already a lot of noise in the form of low quality comments, and they get downvoted. If an AI manages to produce high quality comments that people upvote im not sure I care that it wasn’t generated by a human
- jacquesm 4y agoIt would matter to me because I'm here to read what people write, not what bots write. Besides that being against the HN guidelines noise in the form of high quality comments is still noise.
- travisjungroth 4y agoA comment being noise and high quality seems contradictory.
- notahacker 4y ago"High quality" in HN terms means it's not just a couple of words or a meme, isn't glaringly false or advertising or particularly off topic or antagonistic. "Feedback" that isn't actually feedback, syntheses of other people's comments that claim to be a new person adding their agreement, anecdotes that didn't happen, little known facts that aren't true and pseudo-recommendations that are actually derived largely from the product marketing copy will usually pass this filter, but they're definitely noise
- chrischen 4y agoI'm here to read high quality comments. If I'm unable to distinguish between high and low quality comments then I have another problem... maybe I'm the one that's not human.
- p1esk 4y agoI think what he meant was that an AI generated comment might be high quality bullshit, like for example a story from personal experience that has never existed, or a false fact that looks convincing and/or is hard to check, or a personal opinion written by a statistical meat grinder, etc. And these comments might come to dominate any discussion because they are so easy to generate, unlike human high quality comments.
- chrischen 4y agoIf it's now easy to generate nice sounding bullshit then perhaps we should be re-evaluating our goals in reading that. The examples you give is no different from going on TikTok and ingesting mindless entertaining content.
- p1esk 4y agoExactly. We don’t want HN turning into TikTok, do we? What’s worse, there will inevitably appear AI constructed “native” ads or even political propaganda - high quality comments skillfully promoting products or someone’s agenda.
- chrischen 4y agoYes, so downvote comments that are just entertainment. Only keep high quality objective comments. At best problem solved, at worst AI are better at commenting than humans.
- rcme 4y agoIt definitely matters. Like you can play chess against a bot at any level. It’s not nearly as fun as playing another human.