[saghm]

There have been a few times I've had interactions with people on other sites that have been clearly from LLMs. At least one of the times, it turned out to be a non-native English speaker who needed the help to be able to converse with me, and it turned out to be a worthwhile conversation that I don't think would have been possible otherwise. Sometimes the utility of the conversation can outweigh the awkwardness of how it's conveyed.

That can said, I do think it would be better to be up front about this sort of thing, and that means that it's not really suitable for use on a site like HN where it's against the rules.

[scratchyone]

I've seen that as well. I think its still valuable to point out that the text feels like LLM text, so that the person can understand how they are coming across. IMO a better solution is to use a translation tool rather than processing discussions through a general-purpose LLM.

But agreed, to me the primary concern is that there's no disclosure, so it's impossible to know if you're talking to a human using an LLM translator, or just wasting your time talking to an LLM.