Tell HN: There are GPT-based bots on HN commenting sophisticated nonsense

16 points by tomthe ↗ HN
I read this comment two hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849057

from a first glance, it is just a comment which casually recommends some links. But none of the links really work! I looked through the comment history, which is unsuspicious on a quick glance... but none of the links work! And some comments are also bogus. This is clearly the work of some large language model.

But why? Maybe it is just a "funny" weekend project, but it clearly crosses an ethical line (not into deeply illegal, but into deeply ...not nice?!).

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No change there, then... :-P
Yes, maybe I just underestimate the abundance of bots in internet forums.
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