There should be a new rule on HN: No posts that just go "I asked an LLM and it said..."
You're not adding anything to the conversation.
There should be a new rule on HN: No posts that just go "I asked an LLM and it said..."
You're not adding anything to the conversation.
Yeah, I really have to wonder what the thought process is behind leaving such a comment. When people first started doing it I wondered if it was some kind of guerrilla outrage marketing campaign.
There was no thought process
Maybe he wanted to verify whether what I was saying was true and asked ChatGPT, then tried to be helpful by pasting the response here?
Maybe I'm getting too jaded but I'm struggling to be quite that charitable.
The entireity of the human-written text in that comment was "From ChatGPT:" and it was formatted as though it was a slam-dunk "you're wrong, the computer says so" (imagine it was "From Wikipedia" followed by a quote disagreeing with you instead).
I'm sure some people do what you describe but then I would expect at least a little bit more explanation as to why they felt the need to paste a paragraph of LLM output into their comment. (While I would still disagree that it is in any way valuable, I would at least understand a bit about what they are trying to communicate.)
Yeah, I agree that that's likely the thought process. It just happens to be the opposite of helpful.