New comment by cvullit in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

cvullit — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:45:58 +0000

I won't name where and which one for the obvious reason that you can and should learn to know better, but I observed a comment that was obviously and blatantly copypasted from an agent, with all the signature "it's not just X, it's Y" patterns, the emdash abuse, the "In summary,' section, generating dozens of replies in organic engagement from people who genuinely couldn't tell the difference between a real comment and an aggregation of a prompted, synthetic response.

Whatever happened to "knowing is half the battle?" Why do we accept this kind of intellectual laziness as exemption from a duty to learn and know better?

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New comment by cvullit in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."