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Re: HN is drowning in AI comments

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Post by Twisol »

kgwxd wrote: post #14

Rocket League and HN were probably 90% of my free time until this year. Destroyed by AI. HN doubly so, since every post is about it too. The addictions are still there, but it's decreasing really fast.

Wait, how is Rocket League affected by AI? I play infrequently these days, but I hadn't noticed anything :(

Re: HN is drowning in AI comments

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Post by kylecazar »

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #8

I've read HN almost everyday for about 10 years. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see it. I see way more folks complaining that comments are AI generated.

Yeah, the up/down voting mechanism seems to be doing it's job for me too. Don't think I've noticed a degradation in, say, the top third of comments. That's where I try to live anyway.

/newest is chock full of submissions that were written by AI, though. That's another, broader problem.

Re: HN is drowning in AI comments

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Post by krapp »

amelius wrote: post #5
waygtdai wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get the joke and I myself called it awhile back, I just thought we had a bit more time.

We need more jokes on HN. It's the only good way to prove you're human these days.

>We need more jokes on HN.

I see... Hacker News needs to get a sense of humor or else get drowned in AI slop.

So we're doomed is what you're saying.

Re: HN is drowning in AI comments

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Post by AstroBen »

CSSer wrote: post #9
amelius wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We need more jokes on HN. It's the only good way to prove you're human these days.

This is seriously a good point. Maybe that and typos or bad phrasing

AI is a master at bad phrasing. Typos are just an extra bullet point in your prompt to add

Re: HN is drowning in AI comments

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Post by tredre3 »

amelius wrote: post #5
waygtdai wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get the joke and I myself called it awhile back, I just thought we had a bit more time.

We need more jokes on HN. It's the only good way to prove you're human these days.

The flood of humorous GPT-generated reviews on Amazon made me stop reading reviews altogether.

I can understand someone using a LLM to extrapolate one sentence into two paragraphs. I don't like it, but I understand that on Amazon the button is right there and it helps people feel smarter about their literary skills, in the way that filters help people feel prettier on instagram.

But the added snark or humoristic tone? Why instruct the LLM to do that? To get more likes? On a review?

Re: HN is drowning in AI comments

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Post by WoodenChair »

schappim wrote: post #19

I wonder what the breakdown is between AI-generated comments and AI-assisted comments. If I write anything substantial, I run it through the following prompt: "Please rewrite the following message for clarity, spelling, and grammar, but only return the revised text without any additional commentary."

I understand this if you’re not a native speaker. But if you are, I think this will generally make you sound wooden.

Re: HN is drowning in AI comments

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Post by WD-42 »

pixl97 wrote: post #10

No, not HN, the internet at large. Now, I'm on vacation this week and not been paying too much attention, but whenever you have a geopolitical event like the little extravaganza in Iran the number of bot like posts tends to explode as influence operators make their moves.

The public facing internet is done. HN has been fairly resilient (I think) but even it is beginning to buckle. It’s been sliding for a while but LLMs are the death knell.

It was a fun 2 decades. Time to stick to private discords and real life friends from here on out, though.

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