[jimsimmons]

It's interesting how any thread critical of OAI or Sam gets shot down from the front page very quickly but anything positive lingers on.

When Google Gemini threads are created on launch days they get merged very slowly and therefore community's upvotes get scattered.

Ofc it's hard to prove any of this. But it almost feels like there's an algorithm with a bias at play

[edgyquant]

Sam comes from YC. I know he was fired but Paul always has good things to say about him. It was also sketchy how for the first year there was continuously multiple threads on the front page about OAI.

[tivert]

> Ofc it's hard to prove any of this. But it almost feels like there's an algorithm with a bias at play

It doesn't pass the smell test that there would be an algorithm involved in actions like that. The development timeline and effort involved makes absolutely no sense vs. alternative explanations like manual action. Sometimes even things you'd expect to be algorithmic are not and are really AI (Actually, Indians).

I think the typical explanation for stuff like that on HN is user flagging, which does pass the smell test as an explanation for what you describe. Altman and OpenAI still seem to have a fanclub on HN (real and/or astroturfed), though it's perhaps less dominant than half a year ago.