> Or it might just be astroturfing, it's hard to tell.

Compare the hype for commercial SaaS models to say Deepseek. I think there is an insane amount of astroturfing.

One of my recurring thoughts reading all kinds of social media posts over the past few years has been to wonder how many of the comments boosting <SPECIFIC NEW LLM RELEASE/TOOL> are being written by AI.

Formulaic, unspecific in results while making extraordinary claims, and always of a specific upbeat tenor.

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Culonavirus 6 hours ago | parent [-]

And then on top of that you can't even reply to a post and say it's astroturfey coz it's against them rules (at least it used to be)

	▲	rightbyte 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It doesn't work out very well to do unfalsifiable claims about a poster anyways I think. Like claiming someone is a troll.