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Ask HN: Forbid Reddit HN Submissions?

2•nateb2022•38m ago
cc @dang

Reddit has been filling up with AI generated content. Either bots engaging with naïf audiences who don't realize they're bots, or supposed humans who defend their giant copy/pastes as somehow justifiable as a spellchecked/proofread version.

I don't believe AI generated slop posts deserve consideration, either on HN or Reddit. If people rather not take the time to write something as long as these AI outputs, they're free to write a prompt-length post instead of forcing us to read the AI equivalent of a zipbomb. We can't control what people post on Reddit but I think we should have higher standards here and that Reddit has gone to the point that only very very selective submissions from there should be accepted.

On a tangent, does anyone know of a browser extension I can use to easily hide or at least highlight in red likely AI generated text?

Comments

hootz•19m ago
We can't control what is posted there, but we can control what is submitted here, no need to ban Reddit submissions, just check the content.
krapp•1m ago
Practically everything everywhere is partially or entirely AI generated now, certainly most things likely to be posted here, and comments here are increasingly the same. Focusing on any specific platform is futile.

There is no effective way to escape it or filter it, although the mods try and the guidelines are adamant that such content isn't welcome here. This is a forum hosted by a Silicon Valley startup incubator formerly run by Sam Altman after all, so it's doomed to be the canary in the coal mine for AI content accelerationism. One might as well be King Canute commanding the ocean of piss not to bring the tide.

> On a tangent, does anyone know of a browser extension I can use to easily hide or at least highlight in red likely AI generated text?

There is no way to easily and effectively detect AI generated text as far as I know. All of the "tells" people think work are basically witchcraft. There are tons of extensions and plugins but they'll tend towards false positives. Dang is working on something on the backend to detect generated comments, and I'd be curious to know how well it works but for obvious reasons I doubt he wants to give specific details.

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