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not here (no downvotes for posts on HN), and i dont think it's particularly interesting either. anti-ai posts get downvoted by pro-ai people/bots. pro-ai posts
by john_strinlai 2mo ago
not here (no downvotes for posts on HN), and i dont think it's particularly interesting either.
anti-ai posts get downvoted by pro-ai people/bots. pro-ai posts get downvoted by anti-ai people/bots. (i suspect one of these teams has more bots than the other, but that's just a guess). in any case, the world keeps spinning.
- customguy 2mo agoanti-ai-bots? people who dislike LLM et al use LLM to repeat what is public opinion anyway? like, where?
- john_strinlai 2mo agodownvoting a post doesn't require an LLM. an old-fashioned bot can do it just fine. and there can be several motivations for it (e.g. downvoting a competition's posts, someone upset with how much pro-ai stuff there is on their favorite subreddit, etc.)
- customguy 2mo agoFrankly, I need to apologise because I must have totally skipped the "i suspect one of these teams has more bots than the other". And agree that manual downvotes (or comments) are not always in good faith either (though I'd argue they're intrinsically still better than bot votes, but not as if you claimed differently :)