[tomhow]

In another comment thread yesterday, I pointed out an effect I’ve observed, which is that people are less likely to notice or feel negatively towards LLM-generated content if they like it or agree with it. That’s just a reality of human psychology, and has always been the way swindlers and con artists have their way with people.

The answer is not to suddenly abandon one of HN’s most important principles, which is that we want to keep discussion on-topic and discourage off-topic meta discussion.

We’re developing software to respond to the new challenges that are emerging, and we already have plenty of people who email us to when they notice generated content, which is great.

We know there is no perfect approach; there never is in a large community of humans. But principles matter, and we need to trust that the principles that have made HN what it is over nearly two decades will keep it strong for years to come.

By the way, your own original comment called on us to “Please do something more rigorous than manually deleting accounts”; we are doing that but these things take time to develop, test and perfect on a platform like ours.