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It's a harmless comment that could even generate some interesting responses. I think the bar for accusing other commentators of being LLMs should be set higher
by foldr 2y ago
It's a harmless comment that could even generate some interesting responses. I think the bar for accusing other commentators of being LLMs should be set higher than this.
- kachapopopow 2y agoAccounts like these can be used later on to boost topics.
- foldr 2y agoI understand the potential nefarious motives for spamming the site with LLM comments. It's just that there isn't really any evidence in this case that the comment is generated by an LLM. I wouldn't be surprised if it was, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't.
- pvg 2y agoThere's a huge swarm of recent spam accounts with submissions and generated comments that follow the same naming pattern e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=MetricsMaverick https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=MetricsMaverick It's not much in the way of evidence but could be another reason people find it sus.
- barrkel 2y agoHow do you think it makes people who write ("generate" cheapens it) the interesting responses feel? Answering people's questions has two main rewards to the writer: it feels good to help someone else, and it boosts your ego to pontificate on something you know that others might not. Discovering that you're replying to a bot makes you feel like you've been fooled. Anyway, I'm more aware than ever now that the people we interact with in text, online, are gradually being diluted by bots, and I don't want to participate in a community of bots. Maybe the comment isn't generated by an LLM, and I didn't make any direct accusations. But it is a weird first comment. You expect first comments by fresh new accounts to show evidence of having been motivated to create an account because they had something to say - it requires non-zero activation energy. Meanwhile, there's plenty of incentive to try and sway what gets attention here on HN.
- actionfromafar 2y agoMaybe someone is testing their LLM, how good scores it can get on HN.
- foldr 2y ago>who write ("generate" cheapens it) Eh? I'm saying that the comment could generate (i.e. provoke) interesting responses. I'm not saying that the responses themselves will be "generated" by their authors as opposed to being written. >Maybe the comment isn't generated by an LLM Indeed. I think we should definitely bear this possibility in mind!
- actionfromafar 2y agoI wonder if someone here is talking to themselves? Asking open questions with the trash account and answering them with the real account.
- nottorp 2y agoIt doesn't sound human to me. Yet. See the other comments about portability in sibling threads.