So I'm just baffled, why anyone was using AI to generate comments. Like what was the incentive driving the behavior?
Thanks, if I wanted Chatgpt's middle-of-the-bellcurve ass response I would have put the five seconds of effort in myself to type the question into its input field.
Influence is valuable, and HN is a place that people who are aware of it trust highly.
(AI generation of random comments helps build "trustworthy" accounts that can then be activated when a relevant issue comes up)
Sure, the bad actors don't particularly care for the guidelines - until their accounts start losing karma and getting dead'd/banned. Then they do, and that still materially improves the site.
Also, if you have to mark the sarcasm, then it's proper bad.
While many here are saying "who cares about your spelling and grammar," they have not been the people whose poor English gets them flagged as being somehow less intelligent or credible. Half the problem with LLMs is that they speak eloquently and we use that as a signal of someone's intelligence and trustworthiness. For someone who is otherwise intelligent but doesn't know English well this can be a major setback.
