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They don't have to, the fandom will do it for free.

EDIT: Also, the odds are close to 100%.

> They don't have to, the fandom will do it for free.

See Elon Musk about 4-5 years ago. It was impossible to criticize the man or his projects without getting dogpiled.

Still the case despite many many examples why there should be harsh criticisms.

Human behavior is incredibly interesting at times.

I just did a demo this week for someone who asked how well GPT4 would write forum replies in their voice. The results were startling to be honest. The only way I would (maybe) tell the comments were AI is that they were slightly better quality replies than the author themselves would have written.

I wouldn't go forward with it because it felt unethical, but it was a really fascinating thought experiment.

I’m sure we’ll see a lot of this soon with the US presidential election.

On HN? I'm going to guess it's pretty low. There's no monetary incentive to generating content or getting HN's "karma".

There is money in shilling for products though or like generating startup hype.