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Ironically for these products, the amount of obviously llm generated bot comments astroturfing on HN and making it to the top of these corporate shill posts rea
by brailsafe 2y ago
Ironically for these products, the amount of obviously llm generated bot comments astroturfing on HN and making it to the top of these corporate shill posts really aren't attracting me to using any of them. Read a bunch of glassdoor or google map reviews and then read these comments, clear as the water in a glacial lake; if the comments aren't fake, maybe it's just the people working for them that are? If you produce enough fake slop to be indistinguishable from a machine slop generator, does the difference even matter anymore? Are you still human?
- theragra 2y agoIf I understand your point, counterargument is that hn comments are made by people who are almost certainly in top 20% by intellect from general population. Compared to some subreddits and YouTube, comments here are made by geniuses.
- brailsafe 2y agoComments on HN are made by all sorts of people, some are geniuses that contribute authentically to threads that interest them, and some others operate or invest in glorified template generators that they use to write propaganda about their own products in order to fake popularity and consensus. If one believes everyone else is a genius that uses whichever product, then whoever's not on that train is already obsolete. The nature and style of top comments on LLM related (last years news) threads often reads in such a predictible and distinguishable way from other arbitrary threads that it seems a bit... robotic. Same thing on Reddit.