New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: There are GPT-based bots on HN commenting sophisticated nonsense

Tell HN: There are GPT-based bots on HN commenting sophisticated nonsense
4 by tomthe | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I read this comment two hours ago: https://ift.tt/6StPf4h from a first glance, it is just a comment which casually recommends some links. But none of the links really work! I looked through the comment history, which is unsuspicious on a quick glance... but none of the links work! And some comments are also bogus. This is clearly the work of some large language model. But why? Maybe it is just a "funny" weekend project, but it clearly crosses an ethical line (not into deeply illegal, but into deeply ...not nice?!).

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