[JavierFlores09]

> That rubric only works until sufficiently advanced LLM-generated HN posts are indistinguishable from human-generated HN posts.

if a comment made by a LLM is indistinguishable from a normal one, it'd be impossible to moderate anyway unless one starts tracking people across comments and see the consistency of their replies and overall stance so I don't particularly think it is useful to worry about people who will go the extra length to go undetected

[aspenmayer]

> if a comment made by a LLM is indistinguishable from a normal one, it'd be impossible to moderate anyway unless one starts tracking people across comments and see the consistency of their replies and overall stance so I don't particularly think it is useful to worry about people who will go the extra length to go undetected

The existence of rule-breakers is not itself an argument against a rules-based order.

[tredre3]

HN's guidelines aren't "laws" to be "enforced", they're a list of unwelcome behaviors. There is value in setting expectations for participants in a community, even if some will choose to break them and get away with it.

[bawolff]

If comments by LLMs were actually as valuable & insightful as human comments there would be no need for the rule. The rule is in place because they usually aren't.

Relavent xkcd https://xkcd.com/810/