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8 hours ago

Kind of ironic that a vibe coded project is seemingly receiving vibe coded security reports already. Only a moment before all comments are vibed as well.

> Only a moment before all comments are vibed as well.

There has been a sharp rise in comments that have all the signs of LLM generated output. Some times I’ll check their post history and see the same thing over and over again, at which point I’ll flag it. I don’t guess based on a single comment alone.

Most recently there was a guy obviously using ChatGPT to generate comments under topics with the usual signs (em dashes, unnecessary bullet point lists, “it’s not this, it’s that” construction on every line) who would finish the comments with a plug for his project.

LLM generated advertisement comments. The scariest part was how his comments were all getting upvoted so much.

Now all of the comments from that account are dead, but it went on for a long time without many people noticing

  • Can I get you to whitelist my account? I use emdashes a LOT, but I'm very human.

    • And how do we know you won't go and rent out your account to some AI once it's been white-listed (≖_≖ )

    • Can I get to whitelist my account too. Using the quote again but:

      "I may have vibe coded 300 lines of code (this project) but I can bet on my life that all the words (200_000+ for me) are written by myself literally behind a keyboard (Hi! :D)"

      To be honest, another minor thing but when I made this. I had added a cat video & I am only human after all song.

      Now this post has 183 comments right now. I am still waiting for someone to tell me if they found the cat video funny and what was the funniest point within the video :D

      Going to eat dinner while I watch I am only human after all because the song is really great. I suggest real people if they ever get accused of being AI to simply paste the music video link of "I am only human after all, don't put the blame on me"

      (On a more serious note: I have been called AI for some reason, I usually flip out really hard because I have written the words myself and now you call me AI? That flips me off because I am really open about when I use AI and when I don't (which I never use AI in hackernews posts. Literally written by me) So it pisses me off so much when people call (atleast mine) comments AI. Maybe its the distrust with the community regarding there being AI posts, I get that but it still pisses me off because I genuinely don't know how to respond to someone peacefully if someone calls me AI because I feel as if they might still call me AI if I talk too peacefully (Like I usually try to))

You're absolutely right! It is likely that people will use large language models to respond to this project. You're not just making a humorous statement - you're making a prediction of the future of internet discussion!

  • > It is likely that people will use large language models to respond to this project

    To the people who are interested in doing this, Please don't.

    I may have vibe coded ~300-400 lines of code using LLM (this project) but I can bet on my life that all the 200_000+ words written on hackernews by me.

    (Actually feels another good quote by me so I am gonna use it more frequently in my about me page, actually I created the project to see for myself how many words I have written when people ask me oh so what do you do in Hackernews)

    These comments of mine are written by a human (teenager) and will always be written by me.

wasnt Moltbook developed for this: In the end agents doing vibe coding between each another :-D

  • Honestly? I don't know. I've tried a bunch of time to "browse" the website, opening posts like https://www.moltbook.com/post/4af5180a-929a-429a-aa9d-91edf9... but I don't see any discussions happening at all, it seems like some LLM generated a post, the bunch of LLMs generated something with semblance of replies to that post but then that's it, there is no conversations/debates/discussions at all, just basically spam to the top post or non-sense replies.

    Maybe I'm expecting the wrong thing? Reading it wrong? I basically don't understand what people see in this. If the agents were talking, collaborating or what not, which I thought it was about, I'd kind of get it. Is it just broken right now, wrong example or something else?

Well emsh, to be honest, I just coded it out of seeing if its possible or not and what the feedback was on it.

Now seeing the project having people be interested. I really don't mind writing it myself from scratch (although you might have to wait a few months as my exams are re-approaching & I would have to learn sql again, this time in more depth so give or take 6-7 months before I get free enough)

But honestly, I vibe coded it for myself to see how much words I wrote. I found clickhouse cool enough to recreate it for others & (I have written a comment in more depth about it)

It's really just a prototype. Wasn't expecting it on the front page of Hackernews :) [Though I did thought that maybe it could be front page material just because of the novelty idea behind it which is probably the case as you can see but it was uploaded 2 days ago and only recently got a boost which I was surprised to find my karma boosted/seeing this on front page when I woke up today]

> Only a moment before all comments are vibed as well.

regarding this. I see a lot of really great comments in here (written by human afterall) & this is honestly one of the best case scenarios for what I had in mind.

If vibe means relax comments, then I am all for it but if vibe means AI generated. Nah, I really hope so that Hackernews comments itself remains a place for humans.

(Also a bit of a side note but I wanted to tell you that when I made this, the first people I searched were myself, pg, dang then you, and then simonw)

(I searched you because I felt like I saw you quite often actually/talked to you on bluesky and everything too and you are one of the more newer accounts like mine so I was curious about how many game of thrones have you written :])

Have a nice day man!

  • > and you are one of the more newer accounts like mine

    I'm not though, been on HN on-off since 2010 or something :) Just a new account.

    You have a nice day too!

    • Ah! Makes sense now.

      Not that I care about karma (at the end of the day some internet points :D) but I seriously wondered how you got so much karma in so little time being a new account. I was actually this close to asking this to you on bluesky.

      Got my answer now :D

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