Seems like a non problem. If it's a dull comment or just inane it'll get downvoted out of existence. If the bot actually produces something interesting about the topic, what's the problem?
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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?
#192For all our progressive and seemingly liberal behaviour we are more conservative about bots and the fear of them. Neither is cognition or intelligence unique in itself and as long as an AI is able to do better research and come up with a synthesis it does add more to the conversation.
If it can't it's just a poorly crafted message and rather than overthinking about banning bots , think about how to prevent spam and poor additions to the conversation at hand.
Re: Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?
#193No, 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)
> it's just too much fun to see what kind of ridiculous answers ChatGPT will come up with
I come here to learn, debate, and expand my mind. Not to amuse myself through reading ridiculous answers.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's try it. I think the second response below fails "concise" .. Q: Write a news.ycombinator.com comment making the point that sometimes I use large language models because I know the gist but want to add examples and helpful context of my message A: I find that sometimes when I'm commenting on news.ycombinator.com, I'll have a general idea of what I want to say, but I want to add examples and helpful context to ma…
Both of these read like a person bullshitting and trying to reach a sentence minimum on a short answer prompt in high school to me.
Which is how I often feel reading comments on HN to begin with.
Re: Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?
#195This debate reminds me a lot of early-Quora moderation discussions over anonymous users. People wanted to mass-ban any answers from "anonymous" because they weren't from "real people". I argued that, in a public forum, questions/answers should be judged on their content, rather than "who" wrote them. People disagreed. Anonymous functionality on Quora has since been gutted. AI-generated content seems similar. If a com…
Meanwhile quality of Quora answers these days are basically as bad as it gets, so bad that I have it blocked from my Google results. Not once have I been to Quora and actually found an answer I was looking for.
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#196Re: Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?
#197It is ultimately up to the moderators and administrators of a given website or forum to decide whether or not to allow generated responses from language models like ChatGPT. However, allowing such responses can potentially undermine the integrity and quality of discussions on the site, as they are not necessarily grounded in the knowledge and experiences of real people. Additionally, the use of language models to gen…
This seems like ChatGPT - or written to make it sound like ChatGPT.
Re: Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?
#198Time for a Hacker News Orange. It's a new subscription you can pay $8 a month for to get your identity verified and comments prioritized.
That would kill throwaways, some of the best content here on hn, giving the true insight into what really happens behind the pretty facade of the companies.
Re: Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?
#199They're already banned—HN has never allowed bots or generated comments. If we have to, we'll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , but I'd say it already follows from the rules that are in there. We don't want canned responses from humans either! Edit: It's a bit hard to point to past explanations since the word "bots" appears in many contexts, but I did find these: https://news.yc…
I think the issue is that ChatGPT can already generate better responses than I personally can. Like, a lot of the time I'll have an interesting perspective that I just can't be bothered articulating, whereas ChatGPT will formulate that for me.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the issue is that ChatGPT can already generate better responses than I personally can. Like, a lot of the time I'll have an interesting perspective that I just can't be bothered articulating, whereas ChatGPT will formulate that for me.
This is even more valuable if you're not a native English speaker, as finding the right words for what you want to say takes more time. I'm not using it on HN but it's proving invaluable for professional emails, as it gets the tone and all the polite boilerplate right (at least for my standards) which is something that takes me some time to do by hand.
We already have google translate for that. My Native tongue is Indonesian, and often google translate did better than me.
Source: sentence above is translated