| ▲ | Ask HN: How do we handle the rise of low quality "This is LLM" comments? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 points by shantnutiwari 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Every post that reaches the top of HN will have at least a few comments saying "This is LLM!" It has become a proxy for "I don't like this article, so it must be a LLM" To me, it feels like lazy karma farming, as these comments often do get a few upvotes. And of course, accuse a 100 posts if being LLM, you are guaranteed to be right at least once, then like astrologers you can claim success. Is there anything we can do to discourage this type of lazy and low effort posting? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | etblg 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maybe people should stop posting shitty LLM-written articles that don't generate any good discussion beyond "I think this was written by an LLM" and we won't have this "problem". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | spats1990 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
When you encounter these comments/sentiment, pretend that LLM = Loweffort Long Mumbling. In other words, poor writing. Detection of "LLM" is a red herring. Quality is what matters. Always has been. Assess comment quality holistically, and you'll be fine. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | mts_building 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
My honest opinion is just to accept it, move on and continue writing, building, creating stuff that will resonate at least with a bunch of people. Unfortunately, what is karma farming here or on Reddit will be hateful or so comments on YouTube, etc. depending on the platform. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | carlosjobim an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The answer has been the same since the days of Moses: Drown it out with high quality submissions and high quality comments. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | kirykl 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
add a less severe "Flag, as AI" button | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | brudgers 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ignore or downvote or flag [1] depending on your confidence in your judgement, your perception of its severity of impact on the HN community, your mood, etc. Just like any other behavior you don’t like. [1] logically upvoting is also an option. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tabakd 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is LLM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | 6510 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
HN should add some kind of LLM detection. Preferably something that rates how unhinged a comment is. Smoke me a kipper i'll be back for breakfast. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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