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Comment by rich_sasha | Hacker News Reader

Erm I have no idea either way, but posted by a new account and currently 20+ comments (big majority) all by totally new users too. Like, registered 3 days ago and a single post to their name.

My naive bayesian classifier says: suspect.

Further: many of the account names look like they are generated by the same process. Two words, camel-cased, plus a number. All the ones I randomly clicked are 3-4 days old and have a single post to their history (i.e. the one from this thread).

EDIT the bots just keep on coming! Every few mins. I suppose at the pace if ChatGPT generation pace.

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Hi, OP here. I have to say that I'm a human (as far as I know) my account is new, because I didn't have anything to share before, and now I have a great motivation to be complaining somewhere. Also, you can check Upwork, look for my complete name (which is pretty obvious in my nickname here) and see my lame Upwork suspended account, to check my story. About the rest of the bots, no idea. I'm just an unemployed freelancer making complains in HN.

Right, I thought I was going crazy here. Has this ever happened on HN before?

Maybe it’s someone testing HN cloning

Huh, you right, that definitely looks like someone playing with ChatGPT.. question: why this one article? For testing, jokes, or because some error?

If you look at the bots' posts, they seem to be active on one or two other threads (all the same), like one about worst code ever seen. There they seem to post random nonsense, looks like poor AI-generated "content".

Very weird!

I think posts complaining against some bug Corp are the easiest way to farm karma points.

If I was trying to grow a portfolio of human looking accounts, I’d have them participate in this kind of threads.

I was hoping to get to #1, and make Upwork regret their decision, but a social experiment... haven't though about that.

That is not very nice of you.

They did something wrong so in response you do something bad yourself to a third party community?

Flooding HN with spam just for the feeling of settling your personal vendetta?

Cmon man. Don’t be an ass.

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