Re:Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned ...
by noduerme on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @11:10PM
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Where scale really comes into play and gets scary is when bots can vote on other bots. Right now, most wrong human answers are pretty rapidly downvoted or corrected. But the supply of humans to make incorrect posts is limited and relatively balanced by the supply of humans to downvote them. Subtle errors in AI posts could become so widespread that it's impossible to counter them effectively.
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Re:Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned ...
by notwokeno on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @11:15PM
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They'd probably present it differently from human answers.
If people really want to be careless they can get AI generated code from copilot or chatgpt on their own already, I don't think this would be worse than that.
Re:Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned ...
by noduerme on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:33AM
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Just as someone who's helped people deal with nuanced reasons why exact SQL queries optimize better or worse under various scenarios, a hundred or more times on S.O., I think the reason they turn for human advice is that they place more value in an answer to their specific question that can't be generated by AI.
Re:Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned ...
by dang on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:48PM
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I've banned this account because of the Hitlerian (really?!) URL in the profile. You can't propagate that stuff on HN. We'd ban an account for doing that in comments, and a profile is no different.
It's a pity, because you've also posted good comments and I think the proportion of good comments has been getting better over time, which is great, but that doesn't make things like the above ok. Also, you have a history of using this site for ideological battle and we don't want that here—it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Re:Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned ...
by noduerme on Friday January 06, 2023 @06:35AM
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Jesus Christ, I didn't notice the profile, but I have to say the video intro to Hitler with a MIDI soundtrack of "Unchained Melody" in the background had me in stitches spitting wine halfway across the room. I'm glad this is the last site I still engage with people on; at least here there's a good bartender. I'm ready to stop having conversations with people I can't look in the face. In my most hopeful moments I imagine constructive conversation on HN as a reversion to BBSing, maybe even a stepping stone to people finally abandoning computers as a way of talking to each other completely, as we all just get sick of it.