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Comment by zahlman | Hacker News Reader

At the bottom of this very submission are a bunch of dead comments that are very obviously LLM-generated.

And that is proof that all LLM comments are easily found out? Also, easily found out by average humans? (this is not a average forum here)

Ok, you and I can easily spot LLM text. So what? The Turing test has still been passed, as is clear by people falling in love with ChatGPT, not believing something is AI, and by continuously claiming this or that is a bot.

People, many of them at least, cannot make this distinction anymore. You can, I can, but people as a whole are having problems with that.

>You can, I can

Even this (assuming it's even true) will likely not be true in some near-term future.

>continuously claiming this or that is a bot

I see it as a contemporary form of religious thinking. Like (say) pilgrims seeing blood on a statue of the virgin, plenty of people are now seeing the hand of AI in everything they read. If you want to see something hard enough, it tends to become magically visible.

The most interesting part of your reply is that you're not challenging the claim that the Turing test has been passed. I think it's a given, by now.

Sure. Of course it's been passed.

By this standard, the Turing test was also passed by ELIZA, but nobody serious actually gave it that credit. Aside from which, the understanding of that concept in popular media (both the nature of the test itself, and its supposed significance) has drifted way away from what Turing was saying.

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