People are posting on this very website and commenting on Reddit using AI. I can't get myself into the headspace that would enable this behaviour. What exactly is the point of not engaging in conversation yourself and getting a bot to post it for you on an free platform. Crazy.

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otterley 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The HN Guidelines explicitly forbid posting AI-generated comments; they will be deleted if detected or reported.

I'd like them to go further and delete links to AI-generated content, but I haven't been able to persuade management to do that yet.

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miyoji an hour ago | parent [-]

The HN guidelines prohibit a lot of behaviors that remain unmoderated, you can see it in any thread that goes over 80 comments.

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nick__m 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

If those behaviors bothers you enough you can always mail hn@ycombinator.com because dang is not omniscient even if sometimes it looks like he is...

	▲	HDBaseT 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		How many active moderators are there? This site has a lot of comments, far too many for one person to read.

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Barbing 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Community mostly keeps us in check though.

(Sharing next sentence for the newbies, since you know-) All our jobs to flag on site & even email the worst offenders to hn@ycombinator.com . That said I rarely flag or even downvote anything. People either really behave, or perhaps the rulebreakers break rules that don’t grind my gears. Politely admonishing good faith rulebreakers is another tactic in the arsenal.

AI-generated comment posters with comment histories of exclusively slop get email alerts from me. Don’t know whether they’re planning to sell or spam but they clearly need help finding the door :)

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cheschire 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What drives people to cheat at competitive games? I imagine it’s the same genes.

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rockinghigh 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Using tools to fix your writing style or grammar is not exactly cheating.

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brandon272 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This implies that writing styles are simply "correct" or "incorrect". I'd prefer to read someone's natural writing style, even if they do not consider themselves a good writer, because it comes from them genuinely. Much better than enduring text that has been fed into an LLM and homogenized.

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jackjeff an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

There’s a world of difference between using AI as an editor vs letting it write a whole essay for you. AI;DR is about the latter.

	▲	thatjoeoverthr an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'll push back and say it's the former. Good business writing is all about the editing, and autoregressive LLMs are terrible editors. They roll dice on every word and put the same tics on every text. They meander. Suppose you check something with ChatGPT, get nine hundred words, edit that down to three or even one and send that. You won't get AI;DR for "I checked, we're good."

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plorg 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I get the sense that people who spend all day interacting with software can start to see every interaction, especially in online text platforms, as a kind of API or user interface. You might learn to instrumentalize your interactions and relationships with people. Chatbots, including coding agents, only reinforce this kind of behavior, as they don't have the kind of limits of patience or of bodily or emotional needs that humans have.

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strbean an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've seen it used as a newer evolution of trolling on Reddit. A user hops in to a somewhat nuanced discussion and gives a very curt and rude contradiction, and then just uses an LLM to generate walls of argumentative text after you respond with "What are you talking about and why are you being such a dick?"

Very low effort the ensnare someone and waste their time for a bit, even though it is pretty quickly obvious what they are doing.

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tayo42 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Everyone can use the Internet. Some people are just crazy, neurodivergent or whatever.