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Posted by usefulposter 1 day ago

Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans(news.ycombinator.com)
4136 points | 1625 commentspage 16
kentf 1 day ago|
I don't understand the need to use AI for this kind of convo. +1 to this.
polskibus 1 day ago||
On the other hand, shouldn’t there be a policy forbidding use of HN data for LLM training? I would certainly be more encouraged to participate, if I knew that the content I provide for free is not used to train LLM that is later sold by a company valued hundreds of billions. Perhaps there are others who feel the same.
midnight_eclair 1 day ago||
llm-generated is for corporate mail

llm-assisted for when i care about precision and accuracy

brain-generated for when i feel safe to make mistakes

bronlund 1 day ago||
So the only problem now is to get the AI read the guidelines before posting. :D
PTOB 1 day ago||
Many of us — perhaps even the best of us — can sometimes be mistaken for AI bots.
kunai 1 day ago|
Perhaps developing an actual personality would help with this.

No one is confusing Cleetus McFarland with an AI bot.

Aachen 1 day ago|||
"just develop a personality" sounds like a shallow dismissal. Most comments in most threads could theoretically be autogenerated when given style samples of what fits on HN and what opinion to use

A personality hardly shows through in a handful of sentences, besides which, I'd rather judge comments by merit than by the personality of the poster (hacker ethics, point number 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic#The_hacker_ethics)

shadowgovt 1 day ago|||
This comment makes two interesting assumptions:

1) That the entering of LLMs onto the scene of communication implies that real human beings need to change their style as a result.

2) That nobody can make an LLM talk like Cleetus McFarland.

To me, "I know that text is AI-generated" accusation smacks of the "We can always tell" discourse in the transphobia space. It's untrue, distasteful, and rude.

boramalper 1 day ago||
Unironically, I'd love to have a captcha here for comments and submissions.
Kim_Bruning 1 day ago|
Ironically (morisettan or otherwise), modern AI can crack some captchas better than humans.
jader201 1 day ago||
Can we also add “Don’t complain about AI-generated content. It does not promote interesting discussion.”?

I see this all the time, and even if I find the topic interesting, I don’t want to see comments littered with discussion about how the content was AI generated.

To be clear, I'm not condoning AI-generated content. I’m completely fine if the community chooses to not upvote AI-generated content, or flagging it off the FP.

But many threads can turn into nothing but AI complaints, and it’s just not interesting.

dormento 1 day ago|
From my experience, it usually happens when people are too brazen about it, with boring stuff like "Interesting! Now here's what Gemini said about the above..". IMHO that is an entirely adequate reaction.
jader201 1 day ago|||
I’m mostly referring to responding to the article itself (allegedly) being AI-written. Then the top half of the thread is derailed by a discussion about the article itself being AI-written.
joquarky 12 hours ago|||
Now instead of derailing the convo with a complaint, you can just flag it.
mystraline 1 day ago||
HN banning AI posts makes sense for keeping discussion human, but the line between assistance and automation isnt always clear. The goal should be protecting real conversation, not policing every tool a writer might use.
loeg 1 day ago|
It's an interesting guideline, but will require self-enforcement.
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