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Comment by malfist | Hacker News Reader

This reply has hallmarks of AI slop. Green name, 2x its not X its Y, em dashes.

If you want to be a productive member try commenting what you put into your prompt instead of the slop that comes out.

Also classic ai drivel: This is about protecting the business model, not their inventory. My brother in AI, eBay doesn't have inventory. They're a platform.

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I didn't catch that on first read, but I see why you'd say that. LLMs are ridiculous in the constant usage "it's not X it's Y" -- It's in almost every response from Opus 4.5. "It's not X it's Y" is ruined for regular writing.

I'm also skeptical of anything that claims to reliably detect AI writing. FWIW, I plugged the comment into Pangram Labs, which claims to be the most reliably and seems to have worked well before. It categorized the comment as 100% human written with medium confidence.

What does green name signify on HN? I've always wondered.

New account, sub 400 karma, less than 30 days old iirc.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments

This slop so annoying to see, and tiring – but worth it here – to call out.

Dead Internet theory

100%.

Hallmarks of AI or AI slop? Or are you suggesting that AI is slop by definition?

Let's assume it's a bot. Is the point it's making unreasonable? Is it really unreasonable to refer to eBay's listings as inventory?

Yeah, it really says something about the state of HN these days that this account racked up (net) 261 votes in nine days writing absolute drivel.

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