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by amlug 15 days ago
This exchange is actually funny.

Now, to tell you the truth, for a lot of tickets AI does generate legit the better answers than me. And my time is quite limited.

That said, I will always stand behind my posts, AI-assisted or not.

Now the thread you specifically point at here is ironic in many ways. The other guy says "and claude won't tell you that", while in fact Claude said (in my response) the exact thing he claimed Claude would not be able to do. Anyways, the technical merrits of the conversation are certainly worthwhile and important.

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I seriously cannot fathom how a person chooses to use an LLM to write an Internet comment, so out of genuine curiosity, what drives a person to do that?

Do you somehow find yourself with hundreds of comments to write and nary a moment to spare? Do you genuinely think Claude can better answer questions in your domain of expertise than you can? Is English a second language and not one you're comfortable writing in?

> what drives a person to do that

There are courses on how to use an LLM to better market to people, to do PR, to communicate with other people. Grifters don't care about the human aspect or whatever, their goal is to grift. Comments and other text are just a means to an end (money).