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by PinkRidingHood 1263 days ago
I actually think sites like HN would thrive in the AI era. There's 0 incentive to "farm Karma" here using AI. There's no point in being here except having a human conversation.

I mean, unless somebody wants to manipulate people by training AI to spread crypto misinformation, but with the quality of ChatGPT at this point, it's going to be obvious and have the opposite effect.
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nl 1263 days ago
I think you underestimate the detrimental effect a large quantity of low quality comments have on a forum.

You saw this maybe 5-10 years ago when the "50c army" was at its height spamming specific topics. The good comments were just impossible to find because of all the other junk in there.

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graderjs 1263 days ago
Maybe, but I think you all underestimate the extent to which this was already going on en masse before ChatGPT was released to the public. Who gets to access all the juicy new tech before it filters down to the masses? Who indeed? ;) Not saying OpenAI was involved, but this sort of high-level "conversational" tech has been available for a long time in secret.
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