If you notice an account that appears to be consistently pattern-matching to this, and have a minute to let us know, we'd appreciate a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here, but we do monitor the inbox closely (including fishing through the spam bin for real users) and we take these reports seriously.
I'm the one that posted about it multiple times, including noticing the 45 second pattern the second time.
What's more concerning to me is despite all that and clear indications of it being a bot, dang seems to have ignored my comments and kept interacting with it two times:
If our own administrator of the website is getting duped, how are we going to be able to moderate effectively moving forward? Pointing it out multiple times ( y me and others) doesn't seem to have worked in this case.
Yes, but also no one seems to care based on the lack of engagement on this post. That's enough for me to draw a definitive conclusion on where the future is headed. Sad, but true.
> What can HN (and other forums) do to detect/prevent this?
No clue.
But if it becomes actually true that I can't distinguish between real and AI comments, then my personal solution is to stop bothering to read comments entirely.
Which, for HN anyway, would pretty much remove the entire benefit I get from it.
All: generated comments and bots aren't allowed here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Even AI-edited fall under this category. We want people to write in their own voice: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....
If you notice an account that appears to be consistently pattern-matching to this, and have a minute to let us know, we'd appreciate a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here, but we do monitor the inbox closely (including fishing through the spam bin for real users) and we take these reports seriously.
I'm the one that posted about it multiple times, including noticing the 45 second pattern the second time.
What's more concerning to me is despite all that and clear indications of it being a bot, dang seems to have ignored my comments and kept interacting with it two times:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889769
If our own administrator of the website is getting duped, how are we going to be able to moderate effectively moving forward? Pointing it out multiple times ( y me and others) doesn't seem to have worked in this case.
Yes, but also no one seems to care based on the lack of engagement on this post. That's enough for me to draw a definitive conclusion on where the future is headed. Sad, but true.
> What can HN (and other forums) do to detect/prevent this?
No clue.
But if it becomes actually true that I can't distinguish between real and AI comments, then my personal solution is to stop bothering to read comments entirely.
Which, for HN anyway, would pretty much remove the entire benefit I get from it.
What would be the point of it?