Comment by apublicfrog
5 days ago
> The guys bot is making blog posts, and sending him messages, but theres no breadcrumbs leading back to him? That smells very bad sorry. I dont buy it.
Could you set that up? I suspect I could pretty quickly, as could most pelple on HN.
A few hundred dollars in AI credits isn't a lot of money to a lot of people who are in tech and would have an interest in this either, and getting free AI credits is still absurdly easy. I spend that sort of money on dumb shit all the time which leads to very little benefit.
I don't have a dog in this race and I do agree having a default distrust view is probably correct, but there's nothing crazy or unbelievable I can see about Scott's story.
>Could you set that up? I suspect I could pretty quickly, as could most pelple on HN.
Yes.
Its not that its difficult. Its that its expensive and doesn't provide any obvious benefit to the person supposedly doing it.
But this anonymous guy, has given some kind of anonymous interview to the guy getting the balance of attention from his bots activities.
Its not unbelievable. But given the possible alternatives I feel that I absolutely cant buy in to the story as written.