[smith7018]

Hmm, three spam comments posted within 9 minutes of each other. The accounts were created 15 minutes ago, 51 days ago, and 3 months ago.

Interesting.

Hopefully these aren't bots created by Z.AI because GLM doesn't need fake engagement.

[dang]

These comments are probably either by friends of the OP or perhaps associated with the project somehow, which is against HN's rules but not the kind of attack we're mostly concerned with these days. Old-fashioned voting rings and booster comments aren't existential threats and actually bring up somewhat nostalgic feelings at the moment!

Thanks for watching out for the quality of HN...

[ray__]

Would love to read a Tell HN post about the kinds of attacks you are concerned with!

[dang]

For example, there are rings of accounts posting generated comments, presumably in order to build karma for spammy or (let's be kind) promotional reasons. There are also plenty of spam rings that create tons of accounts and whatnot.

These are different from the submitter-passed-a-link-to-friends kind of upvoting and booster comments, which feel quaint by comparison. In this case people usually don't know they are breaking HN's rules, which is why they don't try to hide it.

[tadfisher]

I moderate a medium-sized development subreddit. The sheer volume of spam advertising some AI SaaS company has skyrocketed over the past few months, like 10000%. Comment spam is now a service you can purchase [0][1], and I would not be surprised if Z.ai engaged some marketing firm which ended up purchasing this service.

There are YC members in the current batch who are spamming us right now [2]. They are all obvious engagement-bait questions which are conveniently answered with references to the SaaS.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DoneDirtCheap/comments/1n5gubz/get_...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AIJobs/comments/1oxjfjs/hiring_paid...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1sdyijs/no_code...

[greenavocado]

Z.ai Discord is filled to the brim with people experiencing capacity issues. I had to cancel my subscription with Z.ai because the service was totally unusable. Their Discord is a graveyard of failures. I switched to Alibaba Cloud for GLM but now they hiked their coding plan to $50 a month which is 2.5x more expensive than ChatGPT Plus. Totally insane.

[sourcecodeplz]

Everyone has started either hiking their prices or limiting the tokens, gravy train is over. Glad we have open models that we can host; Sad RAM is so expensive..