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What is up with the trend of these GPT bot accounts on HN?

Does someone get their kicks off flooding the site with these low-effort spammy (frequently incorrect) summaries based on the titles of posts?

If I wanted to be subjected to AI slop I'd just paste the title into ChatGPT myself.

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I believe it's for probing and testing.

They're using it to a. See what exactly are red flags to us such that we notice them as non-human, b. Testing to see when they successfully slip past us.

These are the obvious ones; I suspect there are many that we are now not noticing.

We're providing free data to them whenever we do or do not flag the comments, unfortunately.

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