Comment by rob

They get the privilege of immediately polluting the website with LLM-generated comments.

Many of them sound and look completely normal and have others on here interacting with them. They don't use em dashes, sometimes they'll use all lowercase text, sometimes the owner of the bot will come out and start commenting to throw you off.

All examples I've witnessed here.

HN should immediately start implementing at least some basic bot detection methods without requiring us to email them every time. I've discovered multiple bots make detailed comments within 30 seconds of each other in different threads, something a normal human wouldn't be able to do. That should be at least flagging the account for review. Obviously they'll get smarter and not do that soon but it would help in the short term.

I'd say it's not an issue but everything I described above has happened in less than a month and every day now I'm discovering bots here.