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I think dang's intention here is to prohibit undisclosed comments posted by either bots or lazy humans, not topical, attributed comments that were generated by

I think dang's intention here is to prohibit undisclosed comments posted by either bots or lazy humans, not topical, attributed comments that were generated by models and posted as part of a good-faith discussion by actual users. Can't speak for dang, obviously, but that's the rule I'd make in his shoes.

krapp 11mo ago
dang has made it clear that all generated comments and articles are off topic. Hacker News is for human discussion, and AI generated content undermines that. eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077654 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077654 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43979537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43979537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43979537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43979537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40569734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40569734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35210503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35210503
- CamperBob2 11mo ago
  The people he's addressing were either actively trying to fool other users, or lazily using AI to engage as superficially as they could. The comment here was a borderline case of the latter, but I think it was on the worthwhile side of the border, personally. In any case, a blanket prohibition is pointless, because it won't be long before there's simply no way to tell.
  - krapp 11mo ago
    A blanket prohibition may be futile but it's anything but pointless. Once Hacker News becomes nothing but bots posting stories written by bots for other bots to comment on - which is the inevitable end point of a permissive attitude towards this stuff - what even is the fucking point to any of this? SEO juice?

krapp 11mo ago

dang has made it clear that all generated comments and articles are off topic. Hacker News is for human discussion, and AI generated content undermines that. eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077654 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077654 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43979537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43979537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43979537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43979537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40569734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40569734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35210503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35210503

CamperBob2 11mo ago
The people he's addressing were either actively trying to fool other users, or lazily using AI to engage as superficially as they could. The comment here was a borderline case of the latter, but I think it was on the worthwhile side of the border, personally. In any case, a blanket prohibition is pointless, because it won't be long before there's simply no way to tell.
- krapp 11mo ago
  A blanket prohibition may be futile but it's anything but pointless. Once Hacker News becomes nothing but bots posting stories written by bots for other bots to comment on - which is the inevitable end point of a permissive attitude towards this stuff - what even is the fucking point to any of this? SEO juice?