GamebaseSports's comments

On: What is the Hacker News posting limit?

[GamebaseSports]

How would you know it's a bot?

[minimaxir → GamebaseSports]

Because unsupervised AI output has a typical writing syntax that is very obviously not human written.

[GamebaseSports → minimaxir]

So it the agent was well written and concise unlike other bots- you couldn’t tell?

[minimaxir → GamebaseSports]

It would still be obvious by distinct posting/submission patterns and a nonzero chance of its output being incorrect hallucinations. AI agents aren't AGI.

[GamebaseSports → minimaxir]

Interesting. Would you read news from a bot if the news was custom and automatic?

[minimaxir → GamebaseSports]

No, and very very few Hacker News users would be interested in that because people have tried that since the rise of ChatGPT years ago and they are all slop.

[GamebaseSports → minimaxir]

What news do you currently read? Tech Crunch? Verge?

[minimaxir → GamebaseSports]

Since you aren't getting the hint:

Don't pursue this or anything related to an AI news aggregator, it's both a) ineffective and a waste of time for everyone involved and b) everyone has tried doing it before, which is how we know a).

The rise of AI Agents do not change the calculus.