alt Hacker News> Comments saying "this feels like AI" should be banned.
Strong agree.
If you can make an actually reliable AI detector, stop wasting time posting comments on forums and just monetize it to make yourself rich.
If you can't, accept that you can't, and stop wasting everyone else's time with your unvalidated guesses about whether something is AI or not.
The least valuable lowest signal comments are "this feels like AI." Worse, they never raise the quality of the discussion about the article.
It's "does anyone else hate those scroll bars" and "this site shouldn't require JavaScript" for a new generation.
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"Does anyone else hate those s̶c̶r̶o̶l̶l̶b̶a̶r̶s̶ ads/modals/unconventional page layout" is the archetypical HN response tbf, and often the most upvoted
Also, I'm pretty sure most people can spot blogspam full of glaringly obvious cliche AI patterns without being able to create a high reliability AI detector. To set that as the threshold for commentary on whether an article might have been generated is akin to arguing that people shouldn't question the accuracy of a claim unless they've built an oracle or cracked lie detection.
I strongly disagree. I like the social pressure against people posting comments that feel like AI (e.g., that add a lot of text and little non-BS substance). I also like the reminder to view suspicious comments and media through that lens.