It's phrased as if it's an answer to a question, which it would be if it was the result of a prompt to chatgpt. Of course, a person could deliberately emulate that style as well, making this an unreliable way to determine whether a comment was written by a bot.
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
Using chatGPT to make a comment isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'd say the curiosity about how the comment was written is a good thing, as long as it's not a criticism.
Sure, but it's still pretty rude because it's usually baseless. And as you said, it doesn't even really matter. If the comment is bad, just downvote it. If it's good enough, why even bring it up?
"Don't ask rude questions", usually said by those with something to hide.
Obviously there's a current novelty factor with cgpt answers, and i for one am happy people 'challenge' them.
If the comment isn't what you like, ignore it?
This is starting witch hunts for ai generated comments, attempting to discredit the comment by its format, not its content.
This violates the goodwill we all share in conversation on HN.