HACKER Q&A
📣 shantnutiwari

How do we handle the rise of low quality "This is LLM" comments?


Every post that reaches the top of HN will have at least a few comments saying "This is LLM!"

It has become a proxy for "I don't like this article, so it must be a LLM"

To me, it feels like lazy karma farming, as these comments often do get a few upvotes.

And of course, accuse a 100 posts if being LLM, you are guaranteed to be right at least once, then like astrologers you can claim success.

Is there anything we can do to discourage this type of lazy and low effort posting?

  👤 spats1990 Accepted Answer ✓
When you encounter these comments/sentiment, pretend that LLM = Loweffort Long Mumbling. In other words, poor writing.

Detection of "LLM" is a red herring. Quality is what matters. Always has been. Assess comment quality holistically, and you'll be fine.

👤 kirykl
add a less severe "Flag, as AI" button
👤 mts_building
My honest opinion is just to accept it, move on and continue writing, building, creating stuff that will resonate at least with a bunch of people. Unfortunately, what is karma farming here or on Reddit will be hateful or so comments on YouTube, etc. depending on the platform.
👤 6510
HN should add some kind of LLM detection. Preferably something that rates how unhinged a comment is.

Smoke me a kipper i'll be back for breakfast.