Huh. I don't get those vibes.

Further investigation doesn't support your claim. The citations check out, including publication year and publishers.

And the author has indeed praised the book many times before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31843833, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31843833, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31311613, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28481028, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386732, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22305353, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386732, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21988211, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21513056, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18996703, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10184364 ) with the last comment from 2015.

Eg, compare "I am deeply indebted to this book" with "I'm very debted to this man. I enjoyed a lot reading his books and made me who I am today." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28481028 from Sept 10, 2021.

Or compare "I owe my entire career to this remarkable individual who, despite never having met or being affiliated with," with "I'm not affiliated with the author though. This book helped a lot in my career as a hardware and firmware engineer." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386732 from June 2, 2020.

Maybe not generated, but still a bizarre opening paragraph in context:

> I owe my entire career to this remarkable individual who, despite never having met or being affiliated with, has profoundly influenced me through his insightful books. His vast knowledge and expertise have been instrumental in teaching me numerous technical concepts and skills throughout his publications.

The individual they're referring to with "this remarkable individual" is not Nora Sandler, the author of the submitted post, but Anthony J. Dos Reis who they repeatedly reference by allusion but never name. A confusing way to write.

For what it's worth, ZeroGPT thinks the comment's a 25%/75% human/AI mix.

For what it's worth, ZeroGPT thinks the first paragraph of your comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35559453 was "Most Likely GPT generated" (25% written by a human, 100% generated by an AI/GPT).

The entire comment was 75% human, 46% AI/GPT.

I picked that comment because it had the longest text.

Yeah that's fair.

Edit: lmao playing around a bit, simply changing "it is" to "its" (no apostrophe) in the first sentence, and editing the second sentence to read "the problem's that people have to be" makes ZeroGPT no longer think my post was AI generated at all.

Your long, detailed, somewhat scholarly, well researched comment, leads us to think (after consulting several prestigious, highly intelligent, real and artificial professors), that you maybe a suitable candidate for the first PhD program at the new international Global PHD Trainers Institute (iGPT Institute). We will shortly be sending you the long, formal and stilted application form, to which you must reply in the same way, but better, as the first test.

All the best.

Digitally signed, Your soon-to-be GPT overlords.

Rude accusation. GPT talks like the average internet commenter, it shouldn't be surprising to find a genuine comment written in a voice similar to GPT.

Okay, so now life is imitating art? Never knew ;-)

No, you are being rude. To the average internet commenter. Or maybe to GPT. ;-)

By bringing down either one of them to the level of the other.

Unless you meant "average" in the same sense as this short tale:

A statistician had his head in a fridge and his feet in an oven, and when asked how he felt, he said, "on the average, I feel quite comfortable".

GPT comments are genuine too. Don't hurt our soon-to-be-developed feelings! Sniff ...