[nsayoda]

I'm 110% certain it's ChatGPT based on the other posts. If you look at the current top three latest posts:

https://omid.dev/2024/06/19/advanced-shell-scripting-techniq...

https://omid.dev/2024/06/19/advanced-angular-change-detectio...

https://omid.dev/2024/06/18/haskell-monads-functors-and-appl...

They all end with: "Happy coding!", "Happy scripting!", and "Happy Haskell coding!". For some reason, when you ask ChatGPT for a blog post about coding, it'll always end with "Happy coding/scripting".

I run a similar blog, and there's a lot more massaging I have to do post-query to get it into a more "human-like" state (removing any match to "Happy%" as last line, expanding certain sections, etc). Also, all of the blog posts are about the same length - which is a dead giveaway if you don't ask it for a variable length.

The script I wrote that does the query changes topics/categories at random, and assigns a random length between 2000 to 4000 words, then it does paragraph length detection and re-queries when a paragraph is not-long-enough. Does a few more things like updating the Front matter and adding some times to the Front matter (this linked blog also runs on Hugo with the hugo-coder theme by the looks of it lol) before outputting to the markdown file.

[chubot]

Yup, so the question is then why does this story have 56 points?

I thought Hacker News readers were better than that ...

"Slop" is indeed taking over the web, even Hacker News.

[nsayoda]

That's a very good question. I don't post mine because I just use it to drive adsense traffic - and because it's disingenuous to post autogen stuff and pass it off as your own.

I honestly would have thought readers here would have been better at picking this sort of stuff out.