New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?
Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing? 4 by overgard | 0 comments on Hacker News. Well first, I don't mean this as a shot at the mods that do a great job. I'm noticing a lot of posts and comments around AI seem like industry plants. Look, I recognize that people are excited about AI and want to share their perspectives, and I'm not trying to accuse people that disagree with me of being industry plants, but the recent one about "I love coding at 60 now because of Claude Code!" by a new user with "cc" at the end of their name seems a LITTLE suspicious. As is the number of upvotes -- I can understand how a new model gets a lot of excitement, but a stranger on the internet enjoying the new model doesn't seem like 800 points worthy? I'm not trying to spark a controversy here, but I'm wondering if others feel the same or if I'm just overreacting.