Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans

Posted by usefulposter 1 day ago

Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans(news.ycombinator.com)

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monksy 1 day ago|

"It's cute you think you can tell what's human and what's not. Honestly, the average HN comment is indistinguishable from a poorly written AI prompt anyway. This rule just lowers the bar for what passes as 'intellectual discourse.'"

Sorry everyone, I couldn't help but to ask Gemma3-27B-it-vl-GLM-4.7-Uncensored-Heretic-Deep-Reasoning-i1-GGUF:q4_K_M to respond. Sorry dang. :)

PS It followed it up with:

> Disclaimer: "Slightly insulting" is subjective on HN. The mods there are sensitive.

These Heretic models are fun.

xupybd 1 day ago||

You're absolutely right

nekusar 1 day ago||

Without someone actually saying as such, we only have stuff like emdashes and specific word patterns to go by. And someone even moderately vested in hiding AI in plain sight will coach the LLM to use common vernacular.

And with LLMs making blog posts as diss tracks... damn, who knows what this world is coming to.

But the whole "Only Humans, we dont serve YOUR KIND (clanker) here" is purely performative.

submeta 1 day ago||

What about us non native speakers? Who make many grammar and spelling mistakes and welcome the help of an llm in eliminating the erros?

dbacar 1 day ago||

Skynet will be pissed at HN!

jajuuka 1 day ago||

This seems like an overcorrection. There is a vast difference between someone copy and pasting from an LLM and using one to correct their English or improve their writing ability.

Rules like this seem to me more like fomenting witch hunting of "AI comments" than it is about improving the dialogue. Just about any place I've seen take this hardline stance doesn't improve, it just becomes filled with more people who want to want to pat each other on the back about how bad AI is.

Just my two cents. I don't filter my comments through any AI, but I am empathetic for people who might have great use of them to connect them to the conversation.

rickcarlino 1 day ago||

How has Lobste.rs fared compared to HN in this regard? Lobste.rs is very similar to HN, but has an invite-only membership system.

accelbred 1 day ago||

These days, I've noticed that lobsters feels a lot more genuine to me, like hn was a few years ago. These days it feels like hn is bland and homogeneous, which I suspect is due to LLM-written comments.

Karrot_Kream 1 day ago|||

In my experience every English-language online forum not rooted in some project or community external to the forum (e.g. an open source project's forum or a local club's forum) devolves into anger, cynicism, and American political partisanship. I suspect that the people who like discussing these feelings are more numerous than the spaces that want to discuss them and so any open forum fills up with their posts. Lobste.rs's unique rules and moderation culture results in a particular manifestation of symptoms but the disease is the same.

captn3m0 1 day ago||

I picked up lobsters last month, and I started to appreciate it much more because of the lack of generated comments. It has a anti-LLM slant, and they have their own moderation challenge (everything is getting tagged as vibecoding - which makes the tag lose meaning). But the comments are noticeable not-slop.

vips7L 1 day ago||

Moltnews

OtomotO 1 day ago|

I just told my dog he isn't allowed to post here anymore...

He said he will take his business elsewhere then!

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