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Comment by jeswin | Hacker News Reader

This has devolved into a political discussion unfit for HN. The OP's submission history[1] is almost entirely political, and promoting a specific viewpoint.

While I believe it's ok to discuss politics on HN, my view is that accounts that exist solely for political propaganda should be discouraged.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=throwaway384629

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If politics emergent from SV technology can’t be discussed on HN, then I’d call this community an abject failure.

My point was that submitters who only submit political articles (in line with their biases) are detrimental to the site. Such articles attract more politically charged engagement, and over time draw in people who care more about politics than tech.

The article btw is of questionable newsworthiness; and is a link to a propoganda blog. It's not really an accredited news organization.

That may be true, but most of OP’s posts did not get any traction at all. This one did because it’s relevant to the community.

Community prefers to be misled on Topics as long as it goes along with their inherent biases.

Why? “This community” worked extremely hard to bring this technology to fruition, and got handsomely rewarded for doing so. The “success” already happened. At least Mr. Altman had the decency to wait until his product had been released before getting up on his moral high horse about the risks of what he’d built, whereas poor Google did the hard work of firing all their AI ethicists and making their priorities clear a while ago, only for them to get scooped on their own technology.

Also the post has been editorialised. Sure parties have IT cells doing all kind of things to build narratives, but I am not so sure if there are basis for the inference in this case.

Even if political, I personally expect better on HN.

I think this is relevant to HN because this is technology that many of us are working on and having an real life example of misuse should make us pause and think how to address the issue.

In your opinion...

I think AI manipulation of public opinion is a great topic for HN, IMNSHO

It might be great or not, the title is NOT correct and is blaming the government without having any proofs. Posts like these should not even be allowed here. This is actually propaganda.

I agree but posting this article is looks good for me.

HN has a tendency to see India from a certain Viewpoint and promote such articles.

This is among many that I have seen gain traction that are politicized.

I believe the moderator sees no issues when the articles pertain to India.

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