3 ms·

I've literally seen this in HN responses as well, so many times. What the hell is the point of human interaction if the "human" just forwards a chat bot's respo

by mort96 2mo ago

I've literally seen this in HN responses as well, so many times. What the hell is the point of human interaction if the "human" just forwards a chat bot's response

Cthulhu_ 2mo ago
At least those (at least the detectable ones) seem to be downvoted en masse, called out, or flagged. They aren't even allowed as per the guidelines[0]: > Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
bell-cot 2mo ago
> What the hell is the point of human interaction if ... Sadly, the point is validating the human worth of the human who can't do any better than this. But, assuming you're not stuck on that human's Self Esteem Care Team, it can be tricky to tell them that they need to seek validation elsewhere.
gspr 2mo ago
Exactly! When someone does it at work, I get a bit sad because my conclusion is that whoever does it can't like their job very much. But that's ok – not liking your job very much is compatible with an otherwise happy life. When people start doing it in an entirely voluntary human-to-human situation, like having a conversation online about a topic of interest, I'm gobsmacked.
mr_toad 2mo ago
> What the hell is the point of human interaction if the "human" just forwards a chat bot's response Forwarding an AI response (or any canned response) sends the message that they don’t want to interact with you. That could be intentional.
- embedding-shape 2mo ago
  I think you're overthinking it. People generally want to be helpful, and do actions they think are "useful" so most likely; these people think they're actually being helpful and useful when they do things like that. Similarly to "no one thinks they're evil" I suppose.
  - fc417fc802 2mo ago
    Specifically they subconsciously think they're special - it doesn't occur to them that everyone else can also query an LLM just as easily.

by mort96 2mo ago

I've literally seen this in HN responses as well, so many times. What the hell is the point of human interaction if the "human" just forwards a chat bot's response

Cthulhu_ 2mo ago

At least those (at least the detectable ones) seem to be downvoted en masse, called out, or flagged. They aren't even allowed as per the guidelines[0]: > Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

bell-cot 2mo ago

> What the hell is the point of human interaction if ... Sadly, the point is validating the human worth of the human who can't do any better than this. But, assuming you're not stuck on that human's Self Esteem Care Team, it can be tricky to tell them that they need to seek validation elsewhere.

gspr 2mo ago

Exactly! When someone does it at work, I get a bit sad because my conclusion is that whoever does it can't like their job very much. But that's ok – not liking your job very much is compatible with an otherwise happy life. When people start doing it in an entirely voluntary human-to-human situation, like having a conversation online about a topic of interest, I'm gobsmacked.

mr_toad 2mo ago

> What the hell is the point of human interaction if the "human" just forwards a chat bot's response Forwarding an AI response (or any canned response) sends the message that they don’t want to interact with you. That could be intentional.

embedding-shape 2mo ago
I think you're overthinking it. People generally want to be helpful, and do actions they think are "useful" so most likely; these people think they're actually being helpful and useful when they do things like that. Similarly to "no one thinks they're evil" I suppose.
- fc417fc802 2mo ago
  Specifically they subconsciously think they're special - it doesn't occur to them that everyone else can also query an LLM just as easily.