alt Hacker NewsWhere are these places where everything is written by a LLM? I guess just don’t go there. Most of the comments on HN still seem human.
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It’s pretty much all you see nowadays on LinkedIn. Instagram is infected by AI videos that Sora generates while X has extremist views pushed up on a pedestal.
The HN moderation system seems to hold, at least mostly. But I have seen high-ranking HN submissions with all the subtler signs of LLM authorship that have managed to get lots of engagement. Granted, it's mostly people pointing out the subtle technical flaws or criticizing the meandering writing style, but that works to get the clicks and attention.
Frankly, it only takes someone a few times to "fall" for an LLM article -- that is, to spend time engaging with an author in good faith and try to help improve their understanding, only to then find out that they shat out a piece of engagement bait for a technology they can barely spell -- to sour the whole experience of using a site. If it's bad on HN, I can only imagine how much worse things must be on Facebook. LLMs might just simply kill social media of any kind.
> I guess just don’t go there.
How do you know? A lot of the stuff I see online could very much be produced by LLMs without me ever knowing. And given the economics I suspect that some of it already is.
Ironically this post is written in a pretty bland, 'blogging 101' style that isn't enjoyable to read and serves just to preach a simple, consensus idea to the choir.
These kinds of posts regularly hit the top 10 on HN, and every time I see one I wonder: "Ok, will this one be just another staid reiteration of an obvious point?"
I continually resist the urge to deploy my various personas onto hn, because I want to maintain my original hn persona. I am not convinced other people do the same. It is not that difficult to write in a way that avoids some tell tale signs.
Many instagram and facebook posts are now llm generated to farm engagement. The verbosity and breathless excitement tends to give it away.
There was recently this link talking about AI slop articles on medium
https://rmoff.net/2025/11/25/ai-smells-on-medium/
He doesn't link many examples, but at the end he gives the example of an author pumping out +8 articles in a week across a variety of topics. https://medium.com/@ArkProtocol1
I don't spend time on medium so I don't personally know.
There are already many AI-generated submissions on HN every day. Comments maybe less so, but I've already seen some, and the amount is only going to increase with time.
I've seen AI generated comments on HN recently, though not many. Users who post them usually only revert back to human when challenged (to reply angrily), which hilariously makes the change in style very obvious.
Of course, there might be hundreds of AI comments that pass my scrutiny because they are convincing enough.
I see them regularly on several subreddits, I frequent.
i think the frontpage of hn has had at least one llm-generated blog post or large github readme on it almost every day for several months now