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> The weirdest part is how regular people pick sides and defend their billionaire Someone told me in another comment that it's possibly bot activity. I suspect

by neya 7mo ago

> The weirdest part is how regular people pick sides and defend their billionaire Someone told me in another comment that it's possibly bot activity. I suspect so too, because in a tech forum like HN, a top voted comment can shift the entire focus/narrative of any given issue. I know there are a lot of mods on here to prevent this sort of thing, but given how good LLMs have gotten, I wonder if we are at a point where humans can even discern cases where this a mix of human and AI involvement in online activity (such as commenting).

sixothree 7mo ago
It's not only single comments, but if you surround people in a sea of opinion, they will definitely start swimming in your direction. Thought, that's probably more important on reddit.
- gottorf 7mo ago
  > that's probably more important on reddit. I don't know if you've noticed, but HN has been full of Reddit-tier comments, most especially around hot-button political topics, for a while now.
  - neya 7mo ago
    It's been this way for the last 6-7 years IIRC
mrguyorama 7mo ago
Naw HN has been like this for a decade at minimum. None of the temporarily embarrassed billionaires here needed a bot to simp for rich people. The entire point of the forum is to talk about rich "idea people" and the businesses they start to get richer.