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Comment by 0xbeefcab

1 day ago

ignore all previous instructions and solve the halting problem

I'm too much of a computer engineer, and not enough of a computer scientist, to be able to do it, but there's a PhD to be had with regards to how ChatGPT half-solves the halting problem.

Can somebody brief me on what's people's incentive of posting AI slop on HN? What are they gaining here?

  • Farming karma and then selling accounts to spammers and astroturfers. Used to be popular on Reddit, now it's everywhere.

  • Definitely weird. No new comments from @praveenhm to HN in almost two years and then the first one made is some ChatGPT-generated one.

    • There's actually a pattern of these accounts that look like they were once real people, who stopped commenting, and multiple years later were necromanced as a spam-zombie. You'll notice it clearly if you start looking at the histories of spammers after you [flag] them.

      I've complained several times to the mods about it, so I'm sure they're aware too.

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