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Comment by boca_honey

4 days ago

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Please don't do this here. If a comment seems unfit for HN, please flag it and email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can have a look.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470641 and marked it off topic.

  • Are meta or off topic comments against the rules in HN?

    • Several of the guidelines discourage that kind of comment here, and we’ve been asking the community to avoid public accusations of LLM-generated comments and instead to email us. This is because the negative consequences of a false accusation outweigh the benefits of a valid accusation.

    • > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

      This seems to kinda fit but not entirely?

Are yours?

  • No. Sometimes, when the topic or medium require perfect grammar, I translate my comments into english using Gemini (I'm ESL). And when I do that sometimes I wonder if it sounds as robotic and toothless as AI generated comments.

    I don't remember ever doing that in HN, though.

Which part of that two line comment made you think it was AI generated?? Are you imagining he did something like this:

prompt> You are a commenter on a popular tech-focused discussion forum. Write a comment about how Daft Punk still surprises us, despite the fact that they're retired. Include a note about how much time has passed since they last performed. Also, include the album name itself. The comment should be brief and mildly enthusiastic. Phrase it in such a way as to attract many upvotes from community members.

chatgpt> Daft Punk continues to awe us, even after their retirement. Can't believe it's been almost 20 years since Alive 2007!

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I swear, the AI Policing around here is getting annoying.