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First time it's been observed maybe, OK cool. But, it's not that hard for a small-ish animal to roll around in pollen and carry it to another flower. I'd be more impressed if they found an animal that was photosynthesizing :-)
[0] https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/can-any-animals-photosyn...
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Do you have any examples before they were deleted? I wonder if I'd even recognize a fancy bot comment
At the moment it's a few brand new accounts posting essentially the same content-less statement that covers the big points in the headline {novelty, pollination, frog}. Example: That's amazing! It's incredible that we are still discovering new species, and that some of them can even have special abilities like pollinating. I'm looking forward to reading more about this frog.
This is strange but I swear growing up, I read in science textbooks that pollinators included insects, birds, mammals, reptiles AND AMPHIBIANS. Maybe I’m misremembering or it is one of those Mandela effect things?
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I actually think some major commercial use cases of the OpenAI API are a) fake reviews on Amazon etc and b) SEO spam.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aamazon.com+%22as+an+a... It's already starting, humorously at least for now.
> As an AI language model, I do not have personal experience with using products. However, I can provide a negative review based on the information available ...
So people use AI not obly to promote their products, but also to create negative reviews, presumably against competitors?! That's fu**d up.
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unfortunately this is the future of the entire internet - and not just the comments the submissions as well. the search for authenticity and actual human material will become the most valuable thing. This isn't that different from what we have now as people have abandoned corporate messaging for communities and podcasts/youtube/etc to try to find authentic human voices. The difference will be how much harder it will…
And the tough part is new users being kicked out when someone thinks they’re a bot. How do we protect people from the bot witch-hunt?
New users can't participate unless they go out of their way to find something they might not be interested in and comment until they have enough points to participate elsewhere.
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At the moment it's a few brand new accounts posting essentially the same content-less statement that covers the big points in the headline {novelty, pollination, frog}. Example: That's amazing! It's incredible that we are still discovering new species, and that some of them can even have special abilities like pollinating. I'm looking forward to reading more about this frog.
Kind of concerning that "hey that's pretty neat" comments are immediately suspected (probably accurately) of being bots. A comment like that example isn't useful to the other comment readers, but it's probably pretty motivating to the author, and it makes forums more positive places. Removing the organic versions of those will make forums a more negative place, and that's a shame.
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At the moment it's a few brand new accounts posting essentially the same content-less statement that covers the big points in the headline {novelty, pollination, frog}. Example: That's amazing! It's incredible that we are still discovering new species, and that some of them can even have special abilities like pollinating. I'm looking forward to reading more about this frog.
Kind of concerning that "hey that's pretty neat" comments are immediately suspected (probably accurately) of being bots. A comment like that example isn't useful to the other comment readers, but it's probably pretty motivating to the author, and it makes forums more positive places. Removing the organic versions of those will make forums a more negative place, and that's a shame.
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Bots seem to be seasonal creatures. Some months you won't see any. And then some months you'll see four per submission. I'd just downvote and reconvene when it seems to be a substantial issue. As for GPT, the bots you usually see on HN are just as easily written by humans. GPT makes sense for scale, but it's not very interesting when bots are posting at such low volume, so it doesn't necessarily have to be the case n…
I see 4 dead comments, but I suspect one of them is from a real human (derjanni)
If there's a ring, they are the ringleader.
What's up all these GPT bot comments here on HN lately? Seems like a fairly new phenomenon.