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tis confirmation bias, thread is full of people who rely heavily on LLMs for work, the rest of us are reading the substantive articles and doing work besides ;)

Inversely, maybe this is what we're actually all like on HN and LLMs write what we read day to day in these comment sections

I wouldn't even accept the anecdote as true

> Usenet and the Internet were generally the domain of dedicated computer professionals and hobbyists; new users joined slowly, in small numbers, and learned to observe the social conventions of online interaction without having much of an impact on the experienced users.

Then the Internet grow explosion happens to a small communuity. Oh boy how do we know what kind of monster it is today.

That means we won’t be able to blame declining comment quality on AI bots in the future. ;)

https://xkcd.com/810/

> But what will you do when spammers train their bots to make automated constructive and helpful comments?

> Mission accomplished.

does it increase or decrease? :)

People have been posting this same comment since I first joined this website in 2012. Even then they were lamenting quality, come on.