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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)
4150 points | 1631 commentspage 18
nickorlow 1 day ago|
This isn't just a good idea -- it's a forward-thinking policy to ensure Hacker News remains a collaborative place to have meaningful discussions for years to come.
spullara 1 day ago||
If a comment is useful I don't really care if it was written by a human or not unless the speaker somehow matters more than the content.
MeetingsBrowser 1 day ago|
Now define useful, specifically in the context of a comment on hackernews.

An LLM summarizing the contents of a blog post might be useful to you, but is a comment here the right place for something you could geneate on your own?

I would guess for most people here, real insight or opinions from others is the "useful" aspect of reading hackernews comments.

Using LLMs to generate or refine comments only moves things further away from that goal (in my opinion).

notorandit 1 day ago||
Why? I consider myself almost human...
notorandit 1 day ago|
Jokes aside, how can we discern between AI-generated and NI-generated textual contents?

And even if we could, for how long?

Reality is that AI is changing everything. Whether for the good or for the bad it's something to check.

flammafex 1 day ago||
So is this the AI bubble popping?

I expect Y Combinator to cease and revoke all funding of all companies that leverage LLM technologies that interact with humans.

I wonder if there's an AI-hate movement in China.

joquarky 14 hours ago|
China doesn't have the same copyright culture underlying most of the hate in the US, so I would be curious if the genAI haters within Chinese culture have more pragmatic reasons to dislike it.
adeptima 1 day ago||
My expectations to dear fellow humans - more sophisticated personal insults (ex. give me your cute comments), a freudian slips, hidden messages and motives, first viewer experience with the next cool toy from the hype train, sharing all kind of insecurities, heavy f.. word if very dramatic first person experience happened, border line exposure to the insider info, sharing something your corporate HR gestapo wont appreciate but might help another guy on the line, "i knew the guy who actually did it" stories, motivational statement toward my non-native english, etc

->> ◕ ‿ ◕ <<--

zby 23 hours ago||
I just found the xkcd that expresses my opinion on this:

https://xkcd.com/810/

I am surprised that apparently I am in a minority here.

tristanb 1 day ago||
You're absolutely right...
officeplant 1 day ago||
Can we get instant temp bans for any comment that starts with:

I asked [insert LLM here] about this, and it said [nonsense goes here]

I feel Like I see it less this week, but every time I do see it I wonder why they are even here.

cheschire 1 day ago|
Too bad there isn’t a complementary rule about not asking “is it just me or does this article read like AI slop?”

I’m so over these comments. Sure I can flag them but I feel like it deserves a special call out.

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