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> I do know for a fact that many "users" here are LLMs. HN autokills comments it detects as LLM. I think maybe you're not giving HN enough credit. :)
by sillysaurusx 6mo ago
> I do know for a fact that many "users" here are LLMs.
HN autokills comments it detects as LLM. I think maybe you're not giving HN enough credit. :)
- sltkr 6mo agoThe question is how reliable that detection is.
- bobomonkey 6mo agoIt needs help. I often pipe my screed though an LLM and post it. I do request that it use a 10th grade reading level, and no emdashes. For giggles, here's how it would look for this comment. Rather meta, but in this case it removed the "It needs hellp" so here we are. I often run my screed through an LLM before posting. I ask it to keep the writing at about a 10th grade reading level and to avoid em dashes.
- fn-mote 6mo agoI have read enough “you are replying to an LLM” comments that I am pretty sure this is still a hit or miss process.
- mmooss 6mo agoWhy do you think those comments are accurate? Maybe those comments are by LLMs? If you believe crowd wisdom on its face, you will have big problems with LLMs.
- hamdingers 6mo agoHN front page is about 25% LLM written blog posts at any given time.
- twoodfin 6mo agoThere’s no rule against submitting LLM-written—ahem, “cleaned up my notes”—articles, just comments.
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- tomhow 6mo agoBadly-written articles are still unwelcome on HN, wether AI-assisted or not, and obvious LLM smell definitely lowers the quality of an article. But it's true, we don't ban every article with any evidence of AI-assistance.
- GeoAtreides 6mo ago>HN autokills comments it detects as LLM No it doesn't. Unless you have proof.... ???
- gonzobonzo 6mo agoHN kills lots of posts. I try to be careful about my online footprint (since HN posts are forever), and try to switch to new accounts every so often. It's no use anymore, HN just kills any post I make from a new account, even when I spend 20 minutes researching a response and trying to get useful information. It doesn't even show you the post is killed, it looks to you like it posted fine, and you have to logout to see it's actually dead. It's an approach that's extremely hostile to the user.
- tomhow 6mo agoIt's specifically against the guidelines to keep registering new accounts, and this is a good reason why. We have to have ways of determining credibility and authenticity, now more than ever, and a track record of good posting is one of the best ways to do that. We are drowning with spam and low-quality posts/projects posted from brand new accounts. If it's a well-researched, high-quality post, of course we want to give it exposure. We just have to be realistic about what we're up against.
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