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?
The pre-LLM equivalent would be: "I googled this, and here's what the first result says," and copying the text without providing any additional commentary.
Everyone should be free to read, interpret and formulate their comments however they'd like.
But if a person outsources their entire thinking to an LLM/AI, they don't have anything to contribute to the conversation themselves.
And if the HN community wanted pure LLM/AI comments, they'd introduce such bots in the threads.