Grok's unhinged mode is amazing for trolling anti-ai cooks. I've been having a blast.
Had to look this up to see they really named it that, but then again, probably not surprising considering Musk's cars have a "ludicrous mode".
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#52Fraud, but a presidential pardon has already been paid for in advance.
You know whats crazy? We’re in bizarre times were this can actually be true. Things we joked about before which was obviously too nonsensical to be true is no longer the case in my world.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know how this reads right? Most people updated beliefs. While you couldn’t do it, so you think people are conspiring against you behind your back.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151741 > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151732 > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151719 Multiple comments made by this account in a timeframe I at least would personally have a hard time reading the comment I’m responding to and then and replying to this quickly, and from an account made in 2025. Kind of making the point for the people you disagree with, assumin…
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Could just be a surge in enthusiasm after 10 years when all we had to be excited about was a new Javascript framework. No. I distinctly remember HN being fairly skeptical of LLMs the way they were sold back in 2023. Then, the astroturfing began happening gradually. First in the comments and then in the posts.
You know how this reads right? Most people updated beliefs. While you couldn’t do it, so you think people are conspiring against you behind your back.
I had the same thought as lovich re: your defence.
Sure, it's obvious to all how the GP comment reads, just as it's obvious to all how this rapid defensiveness appears.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was embarrassing a year+ ago when much of this technology barely worked at all. If you did not perceive a step change in model capabilities in late 2025, it's possible you are working on problems that are just too hard or not well aligned (e.g., arts and crafts). If you are working on software and need to move the occasional mountain, it's really hard to argue with the capabilities of contemporary models and harne…
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I’ve noticed this too. I’ve seen a ton ai defenders and hype people here. It’s embarrassing.
I honestly think even the hypebros are less embarrassing than the full-on Luddites that think LLMs are an ontological evil. It should really not surprise you that Hacker News, a community with an extremely technical audience, is interested in a bleeding edge technical tool that is literally completely reshaping the industry.
Hypebros and full-on Luddites that think LLMs are an ontological evil believe exactly the same things about LLMs.
The primary difference is that hypebros brag about incoming promised apocalypse, 40% unemployment, economy ruled by unaccountable monopolies and permanent underclass. Luddites think that such development would be a bad thing.
I dont think apocalypse will happen, but I do think AI companies are massive assholes who deserves all the pushback they can get for the way they doom hype themselves up.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151741 > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151732 > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151719 Multiple comments made by this account in a timeframe I at least would personally have a hard time reading the comment I’m responding to and then and replying to this quickly, and from an account made in 2025. Kind of making the point for the people you disagree with, assumin…
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Literally both can be true.
Had a recent commenter insistent on calling out another HN user as a tool of the Chinese state boosting propaganda points.
Either of them may well have been a paid commentator, but both also could hold a sincere belief in the points they were making.
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#59>But there don’t seem to be any contributors, or at least not human ones. I ran every article on the site through Pangram (the AI detector that credibly claims a near-zero false-positive rate). Of the 94 articles, 69% came back flagged as fully AI-generated, with another 28% flagged as partially AI-generated. Only three articles were classified as human-authored. How credible is this credible claim?
I'm now suspicious this author (had AI) built the blog they're referencing just so they could make claims against OpenAI.
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It's the metrics though. I've noticed that AI topics get hundreds of votes, that means either someone is trying to beat the algorithm to stay in the top news, or suddenly this place is filled with thousands of AI enthusiasts who ignore all the rest, non-AI topics. (Thousands because not everyone will upvote, so if only a fraction upvotes hundreds of upvotes should translate to thousands.) The imbalance is what is off…
This kind of conspiratorial thinking is ridiculous. My life is affected for better or worse because of AI - I’m forced to use it at my day job as an R&D. It is perfectly rational and expected and preferable for AI to be the front news in a technology forum. You probably don’t like AI but that is completely different from being affected by it.
Conspiratorial like OpenAI creating a tech news service just to spread misinformation and attack critics?