It's phrased as if it's an answer to a question, which it would be if it was the result of a prompt to chatgpt. Of course, a person could deliberately emulate that style as well, making this an unreliable way to determine whether a comment was written by a bot.

Cut this crap out. This type of questioning all the time will not be good for HN.

Using chatGPT to make a comment isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'd say the curiosity about how the comment was written is a good thing, as long as it's not a criticism.

Sure, but it's still pretty rude because it's usually baseless. And as you said, it doesn't even really matter. If the comment is bad, just downvote it. If it's good enough, why even bring it up?

"Don't ask rude questions", usually said by those with something to hide. Obviously there's a current novelty factor with cgpt answers, and i for one am happy people 'challenge' them. If the comment isn't what you like, ignore it?

This is starting witch hunts for ai generated comments, attempting to discredit the comment by its format, not its content. This violates the goodwill we all share in conversation on HN.

Why would someone even bother using a chatbot to write a comment? Just writing it would be a lot quicker.

There isn't really anything to gain here with that either.

“Someone” wouldn’t. A bot would. Which was implied (albeit maybe not obvious) in my question.

But a current-gen bot doesn't go look around for forums to leave comments on by itself. There must be a human that set that up through the API.

My question is why, what's the point? If it even happens, in this case it was not so.

Could be. I'm saw one on Reddit the other day, checked the users history and they all had that uncanny valley feel to them.

I did not use ChatGPT to write this - Me lol

Sounds like something ChatGPT would say

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [email protected] and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Not to me, even after re-reading it. ChatGPT often sounds too formal but this isn’t.