Comment by luciana1u
5 hours ago
a security company writing a blog post titled 'we didn't stop the intrusion' is the most honest thing in the entire security industry this year
5 hours ago
a security company writing a blog post titled 'we didn't stop the intrusion' is the most honest thing in the entire security industry this year
Bot account. This sounded like LLM text. I went through all your other comments, and of your thousands of comments written in 35 days, every other one is also similarly written by LLM.
Some superficial comment usually commenting on the title, always lowercase, always load-bearing and honest.
Sure seems like it. Real humans don't write exclusively one sentence comments. It doesn't look like the post history of anyone here that I'm fairly sure is a real meat based mammal. It looks like someone gave an LLM an instruction to write exclusively short and snappy comments that are somewhat relevant to the original post.
This is a really common tell for HN bot accounts I find, even when effectively disguised/customized to drop the most obvious LLM cliches/em-dashes/etc.
In a vacuum a specific comment may be more or less fine, or just a tad over baked like the parent post giving it an uncanny valley feel though otherwise passable.
But even people who diligently try to stay on topic on a forum like HN will occasionally use a post as a segue or jumping off point to some other idea, tangentially related news, personal experience, or random thought that pops into their head if it feels like it (kinda) “fits”.
After scrolling through a few dozen replies in an account’s history that are all directly related to the post topic it no longer looks human in aggregate.
I’m sure the spammers will try to incorporate that idiosyncrasy into their prompts eventually but not sure it will help more than hurt.
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it was created 35 days ago and already has 418 karma. I've been here for over 6 years and don't even have half of that
dang's only care is which YC-hopeful twink will caress his chrome tonight lol