Comment by simianwords

13 hours ago

AI comment

Obviously so, yeah. Astroturfing? Or is there any other reason why this is becoming so common in HN?

  • I'm not a native speaker. Besides dash, what is the sign that it's AI?

    • I can’t point the exact signs because the message got removed, but a common sign is labeled paragraphs:

      “My take: so and so.”

      “The key idea: so and so.”

      There are also some common sentence structures, like the format “it’s not A, it’s B”. For example, “this is not important; it is essential”.

      Some words also tend to appear very frequently, like the verb pretend: “this is John no longer pretending he’s dumb”.

      Any of those examples could appear in legitimate human text, but when you see many of those signs in a short text it’s very obvious.