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It has been like this for more than a year, a lot longer than just the past couple of months. HackerNews, just like all other platforms, is heavily astroturfed
by iLoveOncall 6d ago
It has been like this for more than a year, a lot longer than just the past couple of months.
HackerNews, just like all other platforms, is heavily astroturfed and the big AI labs have bots commenting and voting, so it'll never end.
The only solution is a platform that only allows humans, with a proof of humanity before posting anything, but not too sure what that can be, and it would ultimately be unsuccessful.
But we have to see the positive, at least less posts about SQLite make it to the frontpage.
- skeledrew 6d ago> big AI labs have bots commenting and voting I'd love to see some proof of this.
- mschuster91 6d agoTurn on showdead and watch the AI bros yell into the void.
- ChickeNES 6d agoAll I ever see are the Anti's and the crazies? Like the guy (who is in this very post) who keeps opening accounts to complain about Claude related posts and saying various slurs. Almost feels like the old days when Terry Davis would post technical rants with slurs applied liberally.
- BoxOfRain 6d agoTo be honest I have showdead on and while I see the things you see, I also see a lot of blatant AI slop getting killed off too. I'm sure most people on here are at least somewhat attuned to Claude's 'voice' by now.
- ChickeNES 6d agoPoint taken, I probably file a lot of that away under "generic HN spam" (or maybe I've gotten so good at skimming Claude output that my eyes glaze over automatically now in response :P)
- philipkglass 6d agoIf a LLM-voice comment has [dead] next to it, either the account was already banned in its entirety or HN's LLM text detector marked the comment auto-dead due to suspected LLM writing. If the comment has [flagged] [dead] next to it, the comment was killed by human flagging. You can see both kinds of comment if you browse https://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments If you have enough karma to flag comments you can also flag them directly from the noobcomments feed, which is useful to help manage the abusive users who keep re-registering new accounts.
- iLoveOncall 6d agoThis comment is very clearly a bot for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657869 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657869
- mschuster91 6d agoNah not on this thread but in general, you'll always find at least one person prompting "summarize this article" and regurgitating the slop into the comment section.
- ItsAdsBro 6d ago[dead]
- flir 5d ago> proof of humanity I'm just wondering how you'd do that. Only thing I can see working is a web of trust.