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kunaiyesterday at 8:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

Perhaps developing an actual personality would help with this.

No one is confusing Cleetus McFarland with an AI bot.


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Aachenyesterday at 8:26 PM

"just develop a personality" sounds like a shallow dismissal. Most comments in most threads could theoretically be autogenerated when given style samples of what fits on HN and what opinion to use

A personality hardly shows through in a handful of sentences, besides which, I'd rather judge comments by merit than by the personality of the poster (hacker ethics, point number 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic#The_hacker_ethics)

shadowgovtyesterday at 8:20 PM

This comment makes two interesting assumptions:

1) That the entering of LLMs onto the scene of communication implies that real human beings need to change their style as a result.

2) That nobody can make an LLM talk like Cleetus McFarland.

To me, "I know that text is AI-generated" accusation smacks of the "We can always tell" discourse in the transphobia space. It's untrue, distasteful, and rude.