There are AI comments now? I think ZERO is the appropriate amount of AI comments on this site but I'm just one person.

How do you identify them?

The AI comments that I've seen seem mostly about keeping the bubble inflated which just makes feel rage at stock bulls. I'm trying really hard not to dislike / truly hate stock bulls but they make it really hard. Everywhere they go, everything they do, they seem to degrade the world for those around them and make it much harder for everyone else to have good human experiences.

I have been trying to take a break for the last few days, but in seeing this I am glad I am not the only one. Slashdot/Twitter-esque comments have seemed more frequent here from suspiciously new users (think last few months, but some post-2023). It could be an increase in the popular consciousness but this theory is chilling to think about. This place is one of the few on the internet left without some mediating algorithm, and with (mostly) polite and curious users. The moderation is good, but one's mind can drift to chaos in times of relative serenity...

dang made a comment on an Ask HN whose topic was "Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?" a couple years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628) that said "They're already banned—HN has never allowed bots or generated comments. If we have to, we'll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, but I'd say it already follows from the rules that are in there." So it seems that submissions and posts that are clearly LLM generated without any content of value can, if I understand it correctly, be legitimately flagged as not being allowed the HN guidelines.