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etaioinshrdluyesterday at 7:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

What do you think is the incentive to LLM post on HN (or any site?)


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homebreweryesterday at 7:49 PM

The usual answer to this question is building out realistically looking accounts for later spam and/or astroturfing.

aaroninsfyesterday at 7:37 PM

The incentive of the human who deployed it—at one remove or another—would require knowing more. But the more likely cases are easy to guess at, e.g., someone is playing with OpenClaw. I'd guess "someone is playing with OpenClaw and intends to write something about it boost their brand, could be a Show HN could be a LinkedIn screed they hope goes viral."

Could be for fun. I remember fun.