I see people still interacting with them, upvoting their comments and being clueless that they are talking to a bot. If HN users can't detect them then reddit and X users do not stand chance.
LLM bots are being deployed all over social media, I'm convinced. I've been refraining from engaging in social media outside HN, so I'm not sure how widespread it is. I would invite folks to try this "debate tactic" and see how it goes.
The dead internet is coming for us...
I guess I'm going to have to get off the couch if I want to talk to real people.
It's such a meme at this point, I wouldn't put it past a human to reply with the poem in some sense of irony/spite/trolling/...
Based on the sheer number of upvotes and replies I see, its obvious nobody can tell.
I just don't think there is anyway to stop these agent posts especially after the last few releases of LLM models.
If an individual like me can pull this of imagine what others can do.