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Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?

882 points embedding-shape | 1 comments | 09 Dec 25 16:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.196s | source

As various LLMs become more and more popular, so does comments with "I asked Gemini, and Gemini said ....".

While the guidelines were written (and iterated on) during a different time, it seems like it might be time to have a discussion about if those sort of comments should be welcomed on HN or not.

Some examples:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164360

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46200460

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080064

Personally, I'm on HN for the human conversation, and large LLM-generated texts just get in the way of reading real text from real humans (assumed, at least).

What do you think? Should responses that basically boil down to "I asked $LLM about $X, and here is what $LLM said:" be allowed on HN, and the guidelines updated to state that people shouldn't critique it (similar to other guidelines currently), or should a new guideline be added to ask people from refrain from copy-pasting large LLM responses into the comments, or something else completely?

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m-hodges ◴[09 Dec 25 18:00 UTC] No.46208201[source]▶
I feel like this won't eliminate AI-generated replies, it'll just eliminate disclosing that the replies are AI-generated.
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1. danielbln ◴[09 Dec 25 19:54 UTC] No.46209766[source]▶
Personally, I don't care about AI generated replies, but if it's a wall of text of unedited first-try output, then it's just slop, and that's just rude. If I don't notice it's AI because it's succinct and without GPTisms, well, I don't love it either, but neither will I recognize it nor will it therefore bother me.