▲ | tomhow 3 days ago | |
Please don't do this. HN is a community, not a laboratory. As a sibling commenter asked: [do you] consider whether or not the people you interact with here want to be experimented on? People have been doing “experiments” with trying to sneak LLM-generated content onto HN since at least 2020. It's not new or clever. Yes, sometimes it will slip through our defences. After a while the community figures out. We give a collective groan and eyeroll, kill all the comments, ban the account if it’s egregious, and move on. We have been asking the community not to publicly accuse commenters of posting generated comments, because sometimes the accusations are false and we think the negative consequences of false accusations outweigh the positive consequences of valid accusations. But if we're going to ask that of the community, we also have to be very insistent that people do not exploit the community’s trust with experiments or stunts like this. |