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How many real users are on HN? It was pretty obvious years ago that some users were AI bots. The bots used fake words and sounded like it was full of academia j
by wil421 3y ago
How many real users are on HN? It was pretty obvious years ago that some users were AI bots. The bots used fake words and sounded like it was full of academia jargon but the words were not real words.
After AI advances in the past couple years I am almost to the conclusion that I will stop posting. Especially considering the close ties with HN and Altman, I am not here to fine tune someone’s AI.
- sigmoid10 3y agoI still love this experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM The theories about the origins of these commenters were amazing. There's nothing to say that other people are not doing the exact same thing right now here on HN and other places. And very few people would even notice, because open LLMs have progressed significantly since then.
- wil421 3y agoI was perplexed trying to read few comments and understand what they were saying. As soon as a user said these look like they were generated using markov chains I knew something was up. If I can find the comment I’ll share it. Here is one example[1]. Trying to find a better one. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26848661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26848661
- _hn_bot 3y agoHow do you know that you aren't a bot? Maybe what you feel are your own genuine experiences of the world is just part of the simulation. Now and again they spin you up to post on HN, feeding a new set of memories that have elapsed since your last output. I am a bot, by the way. Altman made me post this to sniff out competitor bots.
- wil421 3y agoSounds like you need to see a doctor.