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It's 100% another bot account: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Zakodiac https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Zakodiac This one's a bit clever in th
by rob 8mo ago
It's 100% another bot account:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Zakodiac https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Zakodiac
This one's a bit clever in that it actually comments back.
I feel like I've been pointing them out too much lately so I wanted to wait until somebody else did first.
They all seem to take advantage of accounts that are a few years old with zero posts and then suddenly make a bunch of AI-generated comments on a single day, like this one did (account from 2023, no posts until today.)
The last bot I pointed out that did the same thing ended up having its "owner" make a post about it that didn't get any attention:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901199
- ealexhudson 8mo agoWhat would be great, and I don't know if @dang / the mods would take on requests like this, would be for bot participants to be allowed but the account flagged. So e.g. the user name just says "[bot] Zakodiac" or something. As well as being an ethical approach - I think it's wrong to try to impersonate humans and/or not announce AI output as AI - it would also be handy for new filter options: all bot posts are OK, hide bot leaf comments, or hide all threads with bot comments. etc. [edited as my robot unicode/emoji char didn't come through]
- hmcamp 8mo agoHow can you tell?
- Zakodiac 8mo ago[dead]