Is someone targeting HN with OpenClaw? I wish they at least used a high-thinking model but it seems like they are using the cheap API.
That way filtering can be done on the client-side, and users aren't so dependent on the community admin to do the filtering. Not sure the final architecture. Forums are still highly centralized.
Cryptopanic.com is an interesting site with a baseline look and feel and comments integrated so something like that but running locally. Then an easy way to "mark as bot" button for training.
I believe it is more about the bot accounts that gets overwhelmingly annoying... and pollutes this and other places like reddit or other such discussion forums...
Some kind of a verification and vetting needs to happen for account creation.
There is no such thing as due process for AI agents. They are guilty until proven otherwise.
Date picked based on this Trends page: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=agentic&date=all&geo=Wor...
Of course I'm biased, having an account created after November 2022.
The part that bugs me most is they fill out fake 'About Me' sections on their profile.
We all like to think we're independent thinkers, but when seemingly everyone has an opinion a certain way... it would still, at least subconsciously, sway the average person.
What feels corrosive is the flood of AI (and human) comments that are just frictionless, low-effort rephrasings of the obvious. They don’t ask anything, don’t take a risk, don’t reveal any experience – they just occupy space.
Maybe the real line isn’t “bot vs human” but “does this comment introduce a question, a tradeoff, or a concrete detail that someone could actually think about?”. By that standard, a lot of today’s noise fails regardless of who—or what—typed it.