Why do they do this? Is HN such a worthwhile target for astroturfing that people farm reputation with AI comments? And if so, why not add some instruction to get rid of that obnoxious style?
HN readers are, as an average, high on technical know-how and bad at social skills and reading the room. What you're seeing is the natural outcome of that.
The very light moderation (that even shows dead comments from banned accounts) and clean, minimal frontend with essentially no restrictions on creating throwaways also makes it pretty attractive for "my first AI app" experiments. Ever since GPT 3 was released I see a graveyard with a scattering of dead, green, obvious LLM replies on most articles, sometimes with account names like "accounttest14" that don't even try to hide it.
Why do they do this? Is HN such a worthwhile target for astroturfing that people farm reputation with AI comments? And if so, why not add some instruction to get rid of that obnoxious style?
HN readers are, as an average, high on technical know-how and bad at social skills and reading the room. What you're seeing is the natural outcome of that.
The very light moderation (that even shows dead comments from banned accounts) and clean, minimal frontend with essentially no restrictions on creating throwaways also makes it pretty attractive for "my first AI app" experiments. Ever since GPT 3 was released I see a graveyard with a scattering of dead, green, obvious LLM replies on most articles, sometimes with account names like "accounttest14" that don't even try to hide it.