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I'm a mod here - welcome to Hacker News! I hope you find the site interesting. I just wanted to let you know that AI-edited / AI-generated text posts, includin
by dang 5mo ago
I'm a mod here - welcome to Hacker News! I hope you find the site interesting.
I just wanted to let you know that AI-edited / AI-generated text posts, including comments, aren't allowed on HN - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated. This actually affected your post above, but I unkilled it because I wanted you to get some answers to your question!
For the future, please write any text that you post to HN itself by hand. Don't worry about mistakes; they're turning into signs of authenticity at this point :)
- ViktorRay 5mo agoI actually don’t think the post was AI generated. It’s written in the same kind of style high school students are supposed to write for English class. When I was high school I would write essays in that style for English class and I was in high school long before AI. I think it’s entirely plausible that this kid chose to write their first HN post in that same formal style. I could be wrong though. But I always wonder if there would be moments where someone writes a genuine thing and it’s mistaken for AI.
- dang 5mo ago> But I always wonder if there would be moments where someone writes a genuine thing and it’s mistaken for AI. That certainly must happen, because the classifiers are imprecise. So far, though, each time a case of possible misclassification has come up on HN and I've worked with the user to figure out what happened, it turns out that they used tools that they didn't think of as genai, but which left LLM imprints on their text. More about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405497 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405497. This evidence is a bit weak, though, because the sample size is small.