There should be a new rule on HN: No posts that just go "I asked an LLM and it said..."

You're not adding anything to the conversation.

Yeah, I really have to wonder what the thought process is behind leaving such a comment. When people first started doing it I wondered if it was some kind of guerrilla outrage marketing campaign.

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PunchyHamster 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There was no thought process

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efilife 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe he wanted to verify whether what I was saying was true and asked ChatGPT, then tried to be helpful by pasting the response here?

	▲	cyphar 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Maybe I'm getting too jaded but I'm struggling to be quite that charitable. The entireity of the human-written text in that comment was "From ChatGPT:" and it was formatted as though it was a slam-dunk "you're wrong, the computer says so" (imagine it was "From Wikipedia" followed by a quote disagreeing with you instead). I'm sure some people do what you describe but then I would expect at least a little bit more explanation as to why they felt the need to paste a paragraph of LLM output into their comment. (While I would still disagree that it is in any way valuable, I would at least understand a bit about what they are trying to communicate.)
	▲	phyzome 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, I agree that that's likely the thought process. It just happens to be the opposite of helpful.