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My understanding is that HN has started incorporating AI tooling in the back-end to scan for LLM-generated submissions and source content, in an effort to discourage it and encourage human-made content (with human discussions, one would hope). Why do we keep having these kinds of articles every day? Entire "apps" are generated - see the lighthouse one - and submitted, and are plain-as-day LLM-generated nonsense.
Anyway, flagged.
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Where did you get that understanding from? I might have missed something. They penalize LLM comments. Do they also penalize submissions? Any evidence of that?
I skimmed this whole article and didn't see any classic LLM tells about it. Why do you think it is LLM generated?
they don't get @ mentions, you're better off emailing [email protected]
perused the posts and incidentally all are touching high-octane topics, posted only recently but surely warrants discussion/disputes, clearly an evidence of karma farming!
I was about to argue with you, but I now believe this article (and indeed the whole blog) is AI-generated. Here's my evidence:
* All the posts are walls of text. In many of the posts, all of the paragraphs are just about exactly the same length.
* None of the posts contain personal stories, experiences, or anecdotes.
* All of the posts are hyper-focused around advocacy of "old tech" and decentralization. Which is great, but real blogs with this many posts have at least _some_ variation in subject matter and quality. This one's surprisingly uniform.
* The blog is relatively new, posts began about two months ago and there are 17 posts, that's a little over 2 posts a week. Sure, there are bloggers who post that often, sometimes daily, but they are usually much shorter posts, tend to be shorter, or do it for their job.
* The picture of the author on the About page is very obviously AI generated.
* The author has a GitHub account that had virtually no activity until March of this year, and basically all of the commits were co-authored by Claude.
To be clear, I'm sure a real human is behind the site/posts (as opposed to a fully autonomous agent), but I'd bet dollars to donuts that each article started out its life as a very short prompt.