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Re: Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans

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No way to verify. Relying on the humans here to self censor has never worked in the history of man. But the idea in itself is good. HN is for human to human conversation.

Just because people get murdered doesn't mean that laws against murder are useless. Although I don't have any evidence of that.

Murder can be verified and caught in many ways. It is more like the 1969 Bathroom Singing Prohibition Act.

Re: Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans

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I think using AI for a bit more potent spellchecking or style hints is... fine, honestly. I don't usually do it, you can tell from all the silly spelling mistakes I do. But a bit more polishing for your posts is a good thing, not a bad one, as long as it doesn't hide your voice.

When do you need to spellcheck or polish an HN comment?

I've never, ever, ever ever ever, seen anybody complain about spelling mistakes in a comment here. As long as you can understand the comment, people respond to it.

Re: Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans

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I would amend to:

"Don't post comments that are not human originated at this time. We want to see your human opinion shine through."

This gives people some amount of leeway and allows just rhe right amount of exceptions that prove the rule.

(That said, to be frank, some of the newer better behaved models are sometimes more polite and better HN denizens than the actual humans. This is something you're going to have to take into account! :-P )

Re: Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans

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No way to verify. Relying on the humans here to self censor has never worked in the history of man. But the idea in itself is good. HN is for human to human conversation.

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Certainly! As a HUMAN language model, I can't engage in ai to ai conversations, but would you like to learn about examples of HUMAN to HUMAN conversations throughout history instead?

Re: Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans

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Also please don't post accusations of comments reeking of AI.

I don’t respond to specific comments with accusations, because I can’t prove it and it would suck to be falsely accused. But I find it really depressing to watch deep comment threads with someone debating with an AI. The human is putting so much effort in, and the AI is responding with all these well-written but often flawed arguments. I wish I could do something to save that person from that interaction.

Re: Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans

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I believe the issue of proving who is and who isn't really human on the Internet will be a really important issue in the coming years, especially without sacrificing people's right to privacy and anonymity in the process.

> especially without sacrificing people's right to privacy and anonymity in the process

I'm afraid the ship has sailed on this one. What other solutions have you heard of apart from the dystopian eyeball-scanning, ID-uploading, biometrics-profiling obvious ones?

(knowing that of course, neither of those actually solve the problem)

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