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Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?

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Re: Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?

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Post by jay_kyburz »

dathinab wrote: post #12

The comment section on HN is for comments and discussions of people so yes any form of generated responses does IMHO fundamentally disqualify. I mean to nitpick if a AI becomes sentient and flexible enough to be called a person and decides to comment on their own that would be fine. But when it comes to: - auto generating responses - hiring people to generate responses for you - anything similar to the other points I…

I have a disability. I'm a bad writer and a bad speller. It takes me a long time to compose a response that I wont later regret.

I haven't looked into it yet, but I was thinking ChatGPT might help me. I could quickly jot down my thoughts, and let the computer arrange them in an easier to read format.

Re: Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?

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Post by aussieshibe »

seydor wrote: post #2

No, they shouldn't be banned because ChatGPT is too good at mimicking different styles. It would be impossible to tell which responses were generated by ChatGPT and which were not. Plus, it's just too much fun to see what kind of ridiculous answers ChatGPT will come up with. (this text was generated by cGPT, as an example of it)

While I'm on the fence, and don't disagree with the point, this is an awful example to use.

The whole comment is written in a very noticeable Chat GPT "voice", making it very easy to tell it was generated by Chat GPT.

It's also not a particularly fun comment.

Re: Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?

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Post by DemocracyFTW2 »

aussieshibe wrote: post #45
seydor wrote: post #2

No, they shouldn't be banned because ChatGPT is too good at mimicking different styles. It would be impossible to tell which responses were generated by ChatGPT and which were not. Plus, it's just too much fun to see what kind of ridiculous answers ChatGPT will come up with. (this text was generated by cGPT, as an example of it)

While I'm on the fence, and don't disagree with the point, this is an awful example to use. The whole comment is written in a very noticeable Chat GPT "voice", making it very easy to tell it was generated by Chat GPT. It's also not a particularly fun comment.

Yeah OK, next time we'll try again without the reveal, let's see how that will turn out.

Re: Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?

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Post by seydor »

aussieshibe wrote: post #45
seydor wrote: post #2

No, they shouldn't be banned because ChatGPT is too good at mimicking different styles. It would be impossible to tell which responses were generated by ChatGPT and which were not. Plus, it's just too much fun to see what kind of ridiculous answers ChatGPT will come up with. (this text was generated by cGPT, as an example of it)

While I'm on the fence, and don't disagree with the point, this is an awful example to use. The whole comment is written in a very noticeable Chat GPT "voice", making it very easy to tell it was generated by Chat GPT. It's also not a particularly fun comment.

really? i could see myself writing exactly the same. it s too short to tell if it's gpt. Perhaps the only thing missing is imperfect capitalization / spelling (The last line was completely improvised by itself btw)

Re: Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?

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Post by MollyRealized »

keiferski wrote: post #40
kossTKR wrote: post #24

The fact that soon the internet will be so flooded with bots that you'll be floating eternally alone in a sea of imposters unless we create some draconian real person ID system is a tragedy so great it's crazy it has not dawned on people yet. I started out loving the net because of the feelings of connection and partly because of the honesty and discussions stemming from at least pseudo anonymity, both silly stuff an…

This has a far easier and less dystopian solution: charge money to access communities, which are smaller and more focused. I find it very unlikely that corporate PR bots will be paying $5 a month each to spam Substack communities, for example.

... Metafilter, since pre-2000. [1]

[1] - www.metafilter.com

Re: Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?

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Post by dathinab »

yadaeno wrote: post #33
dathinab wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Banning on HN is kinda pointless. But I think this is more about preventing/limiting karma gain of an account, potentially posting/commenting limits and similar stuff. I.e. it's more about migating the (assumed negative) effect a few people abusing comment generation could have then it is about punishing people.

Banning is not pointless. Allowing an easy path for farming high karma accounts is a huge issue. It would basically lower the cost of Astroturfing

It is, it's trivial to create a new account.

You can also prevent farming high karma by just preventing flagged accounts from getting karma, given the nature of karma HN could also delay accrediting karma to accounts in general which would mean that for farmers it would take much longer to realize that they got flagged and in turn wast resources.

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