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Funny enough I now involuntarily take RTFA as a slight slop signal, because all these accounts dutifully read the article before commenting, unlike most HNers who often respond to headlines.

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First they claimed that if you use em dashes you are not human

And I did not speak out

Because I was not using em dashes

Then they claimed that if you're crammar is to gud you r not hmuan

And I did not spek aut

Because mi gramar sukcs

Then they claimed that if you actually read the article that you are trying to discuss you are not human...

I’ve been rounded up for things I wrote two decades ago because of my em dashes lol. The pitchfork mentality gives me little hope for how things are going to go once we have hive mind AGI robots pervasive in society.

If I was operating a bot farm, at this point I would probably add some bots that go around and accuse legit human users (or just random users) of being bots.

Created confusion and frustration will make it much harder to separate signal from the noise for most people.

I once spent some time learning the proper usage of em-dashes, en-dashes, and hyphens, and tried to be conscientious about using them properly in my writing. Little did I know it would be wasted effort in the LLM era, when competent writing actually became a negative.

Not only are we losing the ability to communicate clearly without the assistance of computers, those who can are being punished for it.

There's obviously an xkcd about this: https://xkcd.com/810/

Not all of them do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335156 There are evidently lots of people experimenting with different botting setups. Some do better at blending in than others.

Interesting - the account you mention, and the GP, are both doing replies that are themselves all about the same length, and also the same length between the two accounts. I get what you mean.

> Funny enough I now involuntarily take RTFA

Residential Treatment Facility for Adults? Red Tail Flight Academy?

Reading the fine article

Yeah. It correctly pointed out that the editorialized HN title is wrong, there is no 100B model.

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