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I don’t know what the guidelines are, but this is not helpful or accurate as a characterization of the interview. If anything, Weatherby is saying exactly what you say he gets wrong: “LLMs are not the total distribution, but they’re a far larger chunk of it than we’ve ever before been able to see or play with.” I am no anti-LLM guy but this is an embarrassing way to use them.

Thank you for your reply, I may have misinterpreted what Weatherby was saying and I admit I did not spend enough time reading it. I've re-skimmed it and think you may be right.

With respect to the use of LLMs for my original comment. I think however that this is a useful use for them. It started a conversation on an article that had not comments on it and helped at least one person (me but hopefully others too) to get a better understanding of what was said (thanks to your comment). But it's not a hill I'm willing to die on, specially after already having been wrong once in this thread :)

I find it disrespectful and selfish to expect thousands of people to read and analyze a comment you can't bother to write yourself.

You may have been helped in this situation but you've amortized it with great interest amongst all of us.

You can invoke Poe's law just by reading the article (or not as happens with most cases of honest/unintentional Poe's law) and posting something wrong about it. LLMs are not needed for this use case, we can think and spark discussions by ourselves, that's the whole point of a forum.

Please do not post LLM generated summaries. The HN moderation team has said in the past that "HN has never allowed bots or generated comments." in response to a question about ChatGPT generated postings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747

If I wanted an LLM summary, I would’ve plugged the link into an LLM. Please don’t pollute the commons.

They didn’t summarize the article, they used an LLM to summarize their thoughts on the article.

Sounds closer to an LLM summary of their views on the conclusion of the LLM conversation session about the LLM summary of the article...

Noise without insight, either way.

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