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Funny, yet terrifying at the same time. How can I be sure that HN isn't just a really well trained Neural Net?

A friend of mine actually suggested trying to generate a hacker-news-comment language model next.. sounds like a fun project. I’ll have to look and see if there’s an archive of them available.

An archive of HN comments? This is it.

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You could put up a robots.txt denying all search engines.

But the issue is not just what he could do, but what malicious content generation systems could do.

The issue is, as stated:

> I am actually a bit worried that I’m already starting to see search engine traffic coming in...

We can discuss hypothetical systems that could maliciously flood us with generated content. The creator of this particular service which is being discussed here and now could also begin taking steps to ensure that his creation does not inadvertently create a problem for some hapless Google user.

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"I have creating a PNG Image file where I am printing out the image's with different colors and Image Types. Now I am sure I am drawing properly, but what I'm seeing is that the image is not differently jpeg (ie FF or Chrome) and Safari (for Firefox) is different from the one in Firefox. " As a bit of a connoisseur of babblebots over the decades, one of the interesting things about this generation is that it is produ…

This is like a mental tarpit, where you waste time reading trying to understand what the person is saying only to realize they were a bot and all your effort was for nothing, that is time you will never get back now. This is a terrifying way to destroy an online community if a person floods it with nonsense content like this.

Terrifying -> inevitable. Imagine a botnet full of fake AI users trained with a corpus of legit HN posts. Let them loose commenting on random articles, beginning slowly but ramping up until they’re 99% of all comments.

In a few years, the standard Silicon Valley “Growth Hacking” job description will include using AI to deploy fake content to your competitors’ sites, destroying their user community.

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This is like a mental tarpit, where you waste time reading trying to understand what the person is saying only to realize they were a bot and all your effort was for nothing, that is time you will never get back now. This is a terrifying way to destroy an online community if a person floods it with nonsense content like this.

Terrifying -> inevitable. Imagine a botnet full of fake AI users trained with a corpus of legit HN posts. Let them loose commenting on random articles, beginning slowly but ramping up until they’re 99% of all comments. In a few years, the standard Silicon Valley “Growth Hacking” job description will include using AI to deploy fake content to your competitors’ sites, destroying their user community.

Is this a future? How much content on twitter/fb is autogenerated, auto-liked and auto-shared?
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