Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?

Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing? by cianuro_ on Saturday March 07, 2026 @01:47PM (#47290348)

To me this is another sign the written word is dead.

With so many mechanisms for creating users and posting en masse, I find it really hard to believe the contents of any comment or post I read that goes past a paragraph or two. And of course I am still skeptical even if it is less than 2 paragraphs of text.

I find the contents of that specific post hard to believe. Specially since the user hasn't participated in the conversation at all.

I like this place a lot and it saddens me we are just going to see more of this.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing? by overgard on Saturday March 07, 2026 @09:59PM (#47293940)

I’m almost wondering if in a few years people are going to have to sign everything they write with a private key or something. I think anonymity is extremely important for society and the internet but bots are only going to get better

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Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing? by krapp on Sunday March 08, 2026 @03:02PM (#47300057)

What's going to happen is we'll get a couple of generations born natively to a world in which AI is ubiquitous, and they simply won't care. Content generated by an LLM will have no more or less value than content generated by a human, and social and emotional bonds with LLMs will be seen as no different than with human beings.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing? by moomoo11 on Monday March 09, 2026 @02:43AM (#47305540)

I believe in dead internet theory.

I highly doubt there are as many people terminally online as we think there are.

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