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Comment by loloquwowndueo | Hacker News Reader

Shhh, I like those placeholders as dead giveaways that content was AI-produced. Don’t call too much attention to them or we’ll lose this way of identifying slop :)

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I'm fine with ai slop if it provides value, the value here being questionable, because now I don't know if the values in the comparison are fact checked or hallucinations.

I suspect they're hallucinated. As a random spot check: https://new.knife.day/item/spyderco-paramilitary-2

"The Spyderco Paramilitary 2 is a tactical knife with a 3.44 inch blade. The knife is made in USA of CPM S35VN steel."

It's a real knife, and the blade length checks out (to two significant figures), but the manufacturer spec sheet says S45VN steel. Also the actual name is "Para Military® 2".

https://www.spyderco.com/catalog/details/C81GS2/2090

this data is mostly scraped from a few large knife retailers, so should be accurate.

It's unusual for a large retailer to not use the official name of a product

shrug, if you search around youll see that isnt true

Fair enough, I do see it listed under that name on some sites, and there appears to be a S35VN variant too

Not in this particular case. Out of the 5 knife retailers I just checked, 4 use Paramilitary in their listings. Only one included a space.

A problem with choosing that specific knife for a spot check is that it has been made in many different steels in various special editions, sprint runs, and dealer exclusives. Here's one in S35VN:

https://www.spyderco.com/catalog/details/C81GBNBK2/Para-Mili...

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