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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077431, by dang, 4 days ago: All: (1) Generated comments aren't a
by usefulposter 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077431, by dang, 4 days ago:
All:
(1) Generated comments aren't allowed on HN - this rule predates LLMs but obviously applies even more now: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22generated%20comments%22&sort=byDate&type=comment
(2) If you see accounts that look like they're mostly posting genAI comments, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. That's how I found my way to these cases.
>"But I use it to help my English!!!! Who cares if it's AI if the comment is good??????????"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747998 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747998, by dang, 1 month ago:
Please don't post generated or AI-filtered posts to HN. We want to hear you in your own voice, and it's fine if your English isn't perfect.
If you don't flag this shit when you see it, HN is fucked. The commons is fucked. And you all keep upvoting and replying to comments from accounts that start posting 30 comments a day after 2 years of silence that are all one tightly packed paragraph of pablum with the same structure and tells that are harder to fix than replacing the em dash with a double hyphen.
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P.S. The actual comment is (surprise!) completely wrong. Visit Settings -> AI Controls and you will see a granular set of feature switches under the master kill switch. Each has a clear title and description and is independent.
- p_ing 7mo agoStructure-wise, that comment is not great. Why do you think it’s AI — simply because of a dash of flavor?
- usefulposter 7mo agoClick on the profile. Read every comment made since the account started posting again. Tell me what you think about those comments.
- throwworhtthrow 7mo agoBesides the telltale "it's not x, it's y" used repeatedly in their comment history, I also struggle to imagine what would motivate a human to type such blandly agreeable jargon-filled pablum. I'd certainly prefer not read it, even if it didn't spill out of an LLM. Thanks for making a stink about it. (edit: I now see you used the p-word to describe it too, and normally I'd edit my post to use a different synonym, but "pablum" really is the perfect description. I also assume you already reported this account to hn@ so I won't bug the mods a second time.)
- p_ing 7mo agoThey're all sloppy. It reads nothing like an LLM.
- usefulposter 7mo agoYou might want to check the front page :^) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153644
- xigoi 7mo agoNot to mention that an LLM would presumably use an actual dash, not two hyphen-minuses.