Comment by bakugo
3 months ago
Looks like the moderators are actively deleting comments that call out AI generated articles now. Grim. This comment will probably be deleted too.
3 months ago
Looks like the moderators are actively deleting comments that call out AI generated articles now. Grim. This comment will probably be deleted too.
What did you see that made you think that? (It's entirely untrue btw.)
We haven't said anything specific about genai articles but if you've seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 it shouldn't be hard to extrapolate.
Both comments appeared as [dead] within a few minutes of being made, despite not appearing as [flagged].
They're visible now, but still. What caused them to appear as [dead] in the first place?
There are several possible reasons, so I'd need links to the specific posts in order to answer.
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Quite the opposite. That user's comment was killed because it was classified as AI-generated. Of course it was a false positive due to the AI-generated text they quoted. These systems aren't foolproof. But we're very serious about preserving HN for curious conversation between humans.
> But we're very serious about preserving HN for curious conversation between humans.
How does that work when most of the articles posted are now AI generated?
I've ranted about this before, but the gist of the problem is that you're expecting humans to put effort into discussing something that the "author" did not consider worth the effort of creating. There's a fundamental imbalance there that causes the whole "the author put effort into creating this so you should put effort into discussing it" system that encourages high-effort posting to fall apart.
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