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Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by nomel on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:52PM (#47342589)
Because they've long ago passed the Turing test. Moderation won't be able to stop it because humans increasingly can't detect it.

I see well written people being called "LLM" here all the time, em-dash or not.

Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by nitwit005 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:06PM (#47342793)
Even prior to LLMs, a single comment was rarely enough to identify a bot. Even if nonsensical, there's too little information to separate machine from confused human (plenty of people posting drunk on their phones).

On reddit people sometimes go through the comment history and see that it seems to be a bot, but that's fairly high effort.

Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by jjk166 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:04PM (#47342775)
The key is to accuse everyone of being an LLM. Those who don't react are bots. Those that fight the charge no matter how much its levied are also bots, but with better programming. Those that complain at first but give up when too much effort is required are the real humans. Any bot able to feel frustration is cool.
Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by nomel on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:13PM (#47342893)
Maybe a reasonable approach would be that people could flag posts with a "probably AI" button to eventually trigger a "bot test" for that account (currently, the "score 5 in this mini game" type seem pretty clanker proof). If they pass, their posts for the hour, week, whatever result in a "not AI" indicator when someone clicks the "probably AI" button.
Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by pixl97 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @07:16PM (#47358587)
Thus the HN purity tests begin.