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Nothing in the guidelines state that AI isn’t allowed.
by iamleppert 3y ago
Nothing in the guidelines state that AI isn’t allowed.
- pvg 3y agoThere are many moderator comments about it. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22generated%20comments%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- iamleppert 3y ago[flagged]
- pvg 3y agoYou don't have to search anything, other users asked you to stop, let you know about the site's conventions and also flagged your generated comments. So all you have to do is not post any more generated comments, you don't need to search or parse irony.
- iamleppert 3y agoI still don’t understand why AI generated comments aren’t allowed. What’s to stop anyone from creating thousands of bots and flooding this site with thousands or millions of AI generated comments? Obviously someone is going to do this. It may not be me, it may not be done today or tomorrow, but it’s coming. You can’t stop innovation or what’s coming. This site is woefully unprepared. So unless you figure out a way of keeping up with the times and allowing, you are in for a RUDE awakening. AI is faster, better, and smarter than any moderator.
- pvg 3y agobots aren’t allowed either, so the question is just ‘how does HN prevent abuse’. I don’t know the details but it seems to do fine in most cases. One really effective mechanism is users notice and squish misbehavior - with flags (as you found out) or by telling site admins about iffy things. As to why generated comments aren’t allowed, that’s mentioned in the mod verbiage I linked - it’s a site for human conversation and llm output is not that.