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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)
4109 points | 1594 commentspage 9
r2vcap 1 day ago|
I don’t think there is a good algorithm (or guts) for differentiating between well-written comments and AI-generated comments.
ghxst 1 day ago||
My fear is that platforms that will go to great lengths to enforce this will become an RL playground for some devs to train their chatbots.
dev_l1x_be 1 day ago||
Nitpick: how do you classify the use of Grammarly? When i verify my wording and spelling with a tool does it fall under this rule?
hellcow 1 day ago||
One way to improve things could be to charge for each new account signup if you don’t have an invite from an existing member that vouches for you. Spamming when you risk losing $5-20 per account raises the cost substantially.

Invites could be earned at karma and time thresholds, and mods could ideally ban not just one bad actor but every account in the invite chain if there’s bad behavior.

chapz 1 day ago||
TIL people use AI to generate comments to write in posts. Faith in humanity not destroyed, because it was never there to begin with.
dormento 1 day ago|
Kind of a drag isn't it? I want to learn a new language.... but why would I, since we'll have an earpiece or glasses or whathaveyou that translates in realtime. I want to learn to play an instrument, but why would I, since we have sonos? I would like to go back to drawing, but why, when the importance people ascribe to art is at an all time low? Makes me depressed jsut to think about it.
yellowapple 23 hours ago||
> I want to learn to play an instrument, but why would I, since we have sonos?

Because it's fun?

keeda 1 day ago||
Could we also discourage comments and comment-threads accusing an article of being AI-written? Half the threads these days have a comment that latches onto some LLM-ism in TFA, calls it out, and spawns a whole discussion which gets repetitive fast. I think this falls into the same category as "don't comment about the voting on comments."

Personally, I try to look beyond the language, which admittedly can be grating, for some interesting ideas or insights. Given that people are already starting to sound like ChatGPT, probably through sheer osmosis, we will have no choice but to look past that anyway.

Yes, it's annoying to read LLM-isms. It's also fine to downvote or ignore or grumble internally, and move on.

spudlyo 1 day ago|
That is indeed a problem. If one must complain about it, I think it would help to at least try elevate these type of tangential remarks beyond hurled accusations. A focus on the the specifics (where arguments are poorly made, banal observations are gussied up with flowery language, points are needlessly reiterated, etc) would at least make for slightly more interesting meta commentary.
nu11ptr 1 day ago||
HN is the best tech site on the web for a reason. It has a generally intelligent audience, and while there are certainly inappropriate comments, compared to what you find on social media or even other sites, it is unique and far more respectful. Due to this, you can often have better and more meaningful discussions.
quirk 1 day ago||
I'm sure someone's working on a way to tell the difference programmatically. Maybe a combo of tone, grammar, and some way of telling how fast it was typed using metadata (which may not exist). Even if there was a "probable AI" filter, that would be helpful because it would be a starting point to improve upon.
yellowapple 23 hours ago|
Lots of companies have products to that effect. They're all prone to false-positives, and are therefore worse than worthless.

This notion that AI-generated writing is something that's detectable is in and of itself flawed and really has no business in a community that alleges to have the technical aptitude necessary to know better.

himata4113 1 day ago|
I've been seeing so many AI generated comments that have been near the front I was actually getting kind of concerned.
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