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Presaging your bot produced comment with "A bot said this" is not human written
by delaminator 10mo ago
Presaging your bot produced comment with "A bot said this" is not human written
- acdha 10mo agoExcept in that case they were summarizing it, which I read as closer to “I found this on Stack Overflow but don’t know if it’s right”. I think that’s less offensive than having the post be LLM output or, especially, pretending to be authoritative.
- quietbritishjim 10mo agoThat is still true and still irrelevant here. The comment we're talking about was not written by a bot with a disclaimer at the start. They just asked about its output. They didn't even quote its output - they paraphrased it and added their own commentary! I know HN rules prohibit saying "did you even read it?" but you surely can't have read the comment to have come to this view, or at least significantly misread it. Have another look. Most of all, HN guidelines are about encouraging thoughtful discussion. sundarurfriend's comment asked a genuinely interesting question and inspired interesting discussion. This subthread of "but AI!" did not.