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Re:I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersona... by aw1621107 on Monday December 22, 2025 @12:49PM (#46356543)
> Before you ask: this quote was made with ChatGPT (GPT-5.2), unmodified, first attempt.

Just a heads up in case you didn't know, but generated comments are not allowed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077654

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Re:I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersona... by rpigab on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @03:09AM (#46363411)
Thanks, I wasn't aware.
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Re:I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersona... by eszed on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @08:46AM (#46365282)
I'll understand if dang takes it down, but the heavy (and intentional, I assume) irony makes it one I'd personally keep up. Thanks for posting that.
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Re:I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersona... by rpigab on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @02:45PM (#46437146)
The whole plot of Blade Runner is to detect AI so indeed, it is intentional, also I'm surprised ChatGPT managed to create something nice given the difficulty, but I understand HN would become awful in a matter of days if we let AI comments stay.
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Re:I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersona... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @07:21PM (#46371083)
I think dang's intention here is to prohibit undisclosed comments posted by either bots or lazy humans, not topical, attributed comments that were generated by models and posted as part of a good-faith discussion by actual users.

Can't speak for dang, obviously, but that's the rule I'd make in his shoes.

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Re:I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersona... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @07:32PM (#46371158)
The people he's addressing were either actively trying to fool other users, or lazily using AI to engage as superficially as they could.

The comment here was a borderline case of the latter, but I think it was on the worthwhile side of the border, personally.

In any case, a blanket prohibition is pointless, because it won't be long before there's simply no way to tell.

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Re:I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersona... by krapp on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @08:00PM (#46371289)
A blanket prohibition may be futile but it's anything but pointless.

Once Hacker News becomes nothing but bots posting stories written by bots for other bots to comment on - which is the inevitable end point of a permissive attitude towards this stuff - what even is the fucking point to any of this? SEO juice?

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