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Can somebody brief me on what's people's incentive of posting AI slop on HN? What are they gaining here?
by euazOn 1y ago
Can somebody brief me on what's people's incentive of posting AI slop on HN? What are they gaining here?
- rob 1y agoDefinitely weird. No new comments from @praveenhm to HN in almost two years and then the first one made is some ChatGPT-generated one.
- perihelions 1y agoThere's actually a pattern of these accounts that look like they were once real people, who stopped commenting, and multiple years later were necromanced as a spam-zombie. You'll notice it clearly if you start looking at the histories of spammers after you [flag] them. I've complained several times to the mods about it, so I'm sure they're aware too.
- HenryMulligan 1y agoIs it too big a leap for me to assume someone is going around using password spraying or whatever to compromise neglected accounts for use as spam bots?
- homebrewer 1y agoFarming karma and then selling accounts to spammers and astroturfers. Used to be popular on Reddit, now it's everywhere.