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anonymous908213yesterday at 9:17 PM1 replyview on HN

LLMs will never get good enough that no one can tell the difference, because the technology is fundamentally incapable of it, nor will it ever completely disappear, because the technology has real use cases that can be run at a massive profit.

Since LLMs are here to stay, what we actually need is for humans to get better at recognising LLM slop, and stop allowing our communication spaces to be rotted by slop articles and slop comments. It's weird that people find this concept objectional. It was historically a given that if a spambot posted a copy-pasted message, the comment would be flagged and removed. Now the spambot comments are randomly generated, and we're okay with it because it appears vaguely-but-not-actually-human-like. That conversations are devolving into this is actually the failure of HN moderation for allowing spambots to proliferate unscathed, rather than the users calling out the most blatantly obvious cases.


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jfindperyesterday at 9:24 PM

Do you think the original comment posted by quapster was "slop" equivalent to a copy-paste spam bot?

The only spam I see in this chain is the flagged post by electric_muse.

It's actually kind of ironic you bring up copy-paste spam bots. Because people fucking love to copy-paste "ai slop" on every comment and article that uses any punctuation rarer than a period.

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