trust your instinct. internet is dead.
The commenter in question is the CTO of the company which makes Wordfence. My instinct says they're not on the OpenAI payroll and you're looking at a normal comment and not advertisement.
I think you should check your priors man; it's worth thinking critically before you toss out accusations like that.
I suspect the only way to prove that I’m legit to the doubters is to do something a paid shill or a bot would never ever do.
To the commenters who think I’m a shill or bot: fuck every single one of you and the various motherfucking horses you rode in on.
I suspect we may be entering a dystopia where vulgarity is proof of life.
Maybe you're an LLM trained on 4chan
It I posted on reddit about how I just spent 70k on a watch and someone replied that they didn’t trust me, maybe I would laugh or reply with “whatever”, but never would I reply in anger.
also i was referring to broadly the phenomenon not your post, e.g. even your post is from real human, it's the replies and upvotes push your post to the top.
i don't expect to convince you, but if there's anything I can do to un-upset you, I'd happy to try. :)
...is what a reasonable argument against would sound like. But in truth, nobody really knows who is running that account. There's nothing stopping anybody from passing off their HN account to someone else, having it stolen from them, or even selling it. They could possibly even be who they say they are, but have an undisclosed vested interest in the thing they're promoting.
Internet communities aren't dead, but social media sure is, and Hacker News is ultimately a social media site.