| ▲ | robotswantdata 2 hours ago |
| Where’s the opt out ? |
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| ▲ | BowBun an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| By posting comments on this site, you are relinquishing your right to that content. It belongs to YC and it is theirs to enforce, not yours. https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/ |
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| ▲ | john_strinlai 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| hackernews is very upfront that they do not really care about deletion requests or anything of that sort, so, the opt out is to not use hackernews. |
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| ▲ | ratg13 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Create a new account every so often, don’t leave any identifying information, occasionally switch up the way you spell words (British/US English), and alternate using different slang words and shorthand. |
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| ▲ | GeoAtreides an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | funnily enough, if everyone did this (at least make a new account often), it would prove more destructive to what HN (purposefully) wants to do than deleting the occasional account data | |
| ▲ | fdghrtbrt 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And do what I do - paste everything into ChatGPT and have it rephrase it. Not because I need help writing, but because I’d rather not have my writing style used against me. | | |
| ▲ | socksy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I can't stand this and will actively discriminate against comments I notice in that voice. Even this one has "Not because [..], but because [..]" | |
| ▲ | culi 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Look up "adversarial stylometry" | |
| ▲ | coppsilgold an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This just gives OpenAI that data. Perhaps you could use a local translation model to rephrase (such as TranslateGemma). If translating English to English doesn't achieve this effect then use an intermediate language, one the model is good at to not mangle meaning too much. | | |
| ▲ | fdghrtbrt an hour ago | parent [-] | | I run Qwen 3 locally, but I mention OpenAI on HN so people understand what I’m referring to. |
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| ▲ | GeoAtreides an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | do the following: sample content from users on this page: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders and ask the LLM to rephrase it in their voice | | |
| ▲ | culi 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I'm actually working on a browser extension to do just this with adversarial stylometry techniques |
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| ▲ | tantalor 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The back button |
