Comment by cubefox
2 hours ago
Note also if you cite LLM output on Hacker News, your post will likely get flagged and shadowbanned ("dead"), even if the citation had nothing to do with spam. Apparently Hacker News is using Pangram now to check all comments for LLM content.
You hit the nail on its head! Hacker News has been shadowbanning AI-generated content.
This is not just a spam filter. It's an innovative way to value the human factor—the most precious value in online communities.
Do you want me to pull a poem out of my ass?
Do you want me to
Pull a poem out of my ass
For you to peruse?
Can confirm, got caught by it once. We were discussing if prompt engineering is still relevant, and I copied both the prompt I used and the output I've got. I realized I was shadowbanned because I'm not logged in on every device I use for browsing HN.
I think we can do without people pasting llm generated output into the body of an LLM comment, if people need to provide it for some example, they can do it via a one of the services like https://pastes.io and an outbound link with appropriate description.
Yeah but the comment is shadowbanned (hidden except for the author), so people don't realize that they have done something wrong.
yeah, it would be good if the commenter (if they've never before tripped the no LLM generated text guardrail) could get some kind of warning like "don't do that, and here's why..."
Why is this downvoted???
note that this also applies to ironic LLM-assisted shitposts
I think there should maybe be a little more leeway/amnesty for accounts that aren’t new or don’t have a high rate of LLM tells. IMO if you could self-declare the AI usage and wrap them in <details> tags to handle the verbosity and attribution you could integrate it reaosnably
"Ironic" bad behaviour is still just bad behaviour.
You’re absolutely right
Ironic speech is the main way people make jokes. Sure, ironic violence or something like that isn't a thing outside of WWE, but you shouldn't equate all "bad" behaviors.
In the past we could have said that we shouldn't expect an internet forum filter made of regex patterns to detect irony, but with LLM's as viable modding tools, I'm not sure that we shouldn't raise our standards...
Remember that you can vouch for a flagged post.
I always do this when it is flagged incorrectly, but it doesn't usually help much because multiple people have to vouch.