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0 pointsprotocolture2mo ago0 comments

I dont see Occam taking a side here.

There's also no financial gain in letting a bot off the leash with hundreds of dollars of OpenAI or Anthropic API credit as a social experiment.

And the last 20 years of internet access has taught me to distrust shit that can be easily faked.

Other guy comes forward and claims it, makes a post of his own? Sure I could see that. But nobody has been able to ID the guy. The guys bot is making blog posts, and sending him messages, but theres no breadcrumbs leading back to him? That smells very bad sorry. I dont buy it. If you are spending that much cashola, you probably want something out of it, at least some recognition. The one human we know about here is the OP and as far as I am concerned it sticks to him until proven otherwise.

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apublicfrog2mo ago

> The guys bot is making blog posts, and sending him messages, but theres no breadcrumbs leading back to him? That smells very bad sorry. I dont buy it.

Could you set that up? I suspect I could pretty quickly, as could most pelple on HN.

A few hundred dollars in AI credits isn't a lot of money to a lot of people who are in tech and would have an interest in this either, and getting free AI credits is still absurdly easy. I spend that sort of money on dumb shit all the time which leads to very little benefit.

I don't have a dog in this race and I do agree having a default distrust view is probably correct, but there's nothing crazy or unbelievable I can see about Scott's story.

protocoltureOP2mo ago

>Could you set that up? I suspect I could pretty quickly, as could most pelple on HN.

Yes.

Its not that its difficult. Its that its expensive and doesn't provide any obvious benefit to the person supposedly doing it.

But this anonymous guy, has given some kind of anonymous interview to the guy getting the balance of attention from his bots activities.

Its not unbelievable. But given the possible alternatives I feel that I absolutely cant buy in to the story as written.

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