Comment by barrkel

How do you think it makes people who write ("generate" cheapens it) the interesting responses feel? Answering people's questions has two main rewards to the writer: it feels good to help someone else, and it boosts your ego to pontificate on something you know that others might not. Discovering that you're replying to a bot makes you feel like you've been fooled.

Anyway, I'm more aware than ever now that the people we interact with in text, online, are gradually being diluted by bots, and I don't want to participate in a community of bots.

Maybe the comment isn't generated by an LLM, and I didn't make any direct accusations. But it is a weird first comment. You expect first comments by fresh new accounts to show evidence of having been motivated to create an account because they had something to say - it requires non-zero activation energy. Meanwhile, there's plenty of incentive to try and sway what gets attention here on HN.