Comment by anslopic4
7 hours ago
Yes they are mostly shill and bot comments. Some of the big accounts are paid influencers, some of the other comments are purely AI.
HN sells these advertising services. Nobody is using “Claude” etc.
They will censor comments like yours and my reply here because we call it out.
It’s very weird that basically lies and disinformation became the optimal meta in business and in life! But here we are
Correct. This orange site has evidently gone under AI psychosis especially in model release posts and is overrun by AI bots, paid influencers and even small creeping signs of crypto pumpfun scams [0].
Even making a tiny joke is too much [1] for some.
> They will censor comments like yours and my reply here because we call it out.
Don't bother calling it out, it does not work. There are protected accounts where the guidelines don't apply to them and moderators allow this and ban others who do the same thing. [2]
It is pointless, and HN is cooked for this.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366029