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    Comment #47340069

    Generated comments are not welcome here. Please respect the guidelines of the community. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated >Don't post generated comments o…

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    Comment #47204622

    >who cares dang cares. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077431 (1) Generated comments aren't allowed on HN - this rule predates LLMs but obviously applies even more now: http…

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    Comment #47155031

    You might want to check the front page :^) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153644

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    Comment #47155013

    >snowhale Oh, would you look at that? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47134072

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    Comment #47134153

    Click on the profile. Read every comment made since the account started posting again. Tell me what you think about those comments.

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    Comment #47134072

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077431 , by dang, 4 days ago: All: (1) Generated comments aren't allowed on HN - this rule predates LLMs but obviously applies even more now:…

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    Comment #47109913

    You have to believe me this time! The homogenization of your computing life to revolve around a chatbot in a loop———is all you need! Give in! Hackernews NEEDS you to use the 1000th…

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    Comment #47058029

    Hey, it's just like the Gas Town diagrams. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746045

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    Comment #47046526

    >or I can step back if the AI assistance undermines the discussion. Yes. Please don't post generated or AI-filtered posts to HN. We want to hear you in your own voice, and it's fin…

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    Comment #47026092

    tl;dr: We apologize for getting caught. Ars Subscriptors in the comments thank Ars for their diligence in handling an editorial fuckup that wasn't identified by Ars.

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    Comment #47012423

    Just like in the original thread that was wiped ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012384 ), Ars Subscriptors continue to display lack of reading comprehension and jump to de…

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    Comment #47012384

    Incredible. When Ars pull an article and its comments, they wipe the public XenForo forum thread too, but Scott's post there was archived. Username scottshambaugh: https://web.arch…

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    Comment #47002256

    I wish I had a super-upvote. "OP here" or "Author here" in posts is an obvious one when you see it. (In both cases, it's completely redundant!) As for comments, regurgitating the i…

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    Comment #47001852

    Well, since we're all talking about sourcing training material to "benchmaxx" for social proof, and not litigating the whole "AI bubble" debate, just the entire cottage industry of…

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    Comment #47001146

    I expect the GitHub Comms and Policy teams will soon update the AUP to permit this kind of automation misuse so long as there is an "owner" attached. Which will still be meaningles…

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    Comment #47001077

    >We want it >We've trained it >We added >We want them Please be specific in your attribution. Who's "we"?

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    Comment #46993488

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law becomes truer every day. --- It's worth mentioning that the latest "blogpost" seems excessively pointed and doesn't fit the pure "you…

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    Comment #46992023

    LLM-generated prose undermines a social contract of sorts: absent LLMs, it is presumed that of the reader and the writer, it is the writer that has undertaken the greater intellect…

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    Comment #46991367

    >you're not actually engaging in conversation Users seem to be persistently flagkilling their comments. That doesn't help facilitate effective conversation of LLM critique.

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    Comment #46991265

    Concerning is the fact that, once initialized, operators of these "agents" (LLMs running in a loop) will leave them running and tasked with a short heartbeat (30 minutes). As for t…

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