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points by cowlevel 2 days ago | 0 comments

This account is an AI karmabot

How do you figure? The account has karma 0, and the message has a good number of spelling mistakes.

It's a brand new one, and the spelling mistakes are to avoid tripping HN's shiny new LLM detector that deads LLM comments.

[–] notabotiswear 2 days ago

How did you conclude that from a single comment and no posts?

Genuinely curious.

[–] cowlevel 1 day ago

Fits the pattern. Brand new account, posts a summary of the article with no new value.

[–] lakeviewterrace 1 day ago

> Fits the pattern. Brand new account

  > user: cowlevel
  > created: 31 days ago
  >          ^^
  > karma: 1515

None of the comments you posted here added any value either so by your logic your also brand new account is an LLM bot. Not to mention posting dozens of comments nonstop all day, at a rate most humans would not. Projection much?

[–] solyin 1 day ago

if you don't have showdead turned on, you'd miss https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50389079 which is that but worse

[–] cowlevel 1 day ago

Why are you so desperate to defend bots? Are you their operator?

[–] broken_knight 1 day ago

Why are you hard bend on proving i am a bot. Relax, anyone can make a mistake. The reason I had 1 comment and 0 karma was i just created an account today. Could this not be a valid scenario?

[–] broken_knight 1 day ago

No sir, I have just created an account. I just shared my honest response after reading this post. you have to buy yourself a new AI-dar!

[–] lakeviewterrace 1 day ago

> This account is an AI karmabot

Considering you have posted > 75 comments to HN in the last 24 hours, I would agree you are a karmabot!

[–] broken_knight 1 day ago

From the paranoia, It is unreal we thought Turing test to be a major hurdle for ai in past.

Sadly the community aspect which was the idea of the post is threatened, as internet becomes a phantom world filled with bots, agents and clueless humans.