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What do you think is the goal of the commenter's behavior on hackernews? Is the platform big enough to be target of low-effort karma farming, and does karma mat
by xnyan 2y ago
What do you think is the goal of the commenter's behavior on hackernews? Is the platform big enough to be target of low-effort karma farming, and does karma matter enough here to be sold?
- dagss 2y agoResearch / development project? The karma system in a community that downvotes AI comments provides quite good (and free) feedback about whether comments are perceived to be written by an AI, or not..
- tivert 2y agoWhy is the OP thought to be ChatGPT? Because it spent so much time summarizing? I'm having a hard time fitting the last paragraph (an the accounts other comments) into my stereotypes of LLM output. Maybe it's human with too much LLM assistance?
- mistermann 2y agoMy guess is a combination of (a more abstract version of) this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window ...causing this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley It's a nice bit of synchronicity that it occurred in a thread like this.