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>>kaeruc+(OP)
Goodhart's law: if you rely on a social signal to tell you what's good, you'll break that signal.

Very soon, the domain of bullshit will extend to actual text. We'll be able to buy HN comments by the thousand -- expertly wordsmithed, lucid AI comments -- and you can get them to say "this GitHub repo is the best", or "this startup is the real deal". Won't that be fun?

>>perihe+ca
I mean, there have always been shills. What's changing now is the cost of shilling is dropping from dollars per comment to fractions of a cent. Troll farms used to be a lot of work to put together, but soon they'll be aaS.

Those of us who are careful internet readers have spent years developing good heuristics to use textual clues to tell us about the person behind the text. Are they smart? Are they sincere? Are they honest? Are they commenting in good faith? Those skills will soon be obsolete.

The folks at OpenAI, who are nominally on a mission to make sure AI "benefits all of humanity", have condemned us to a life sentence of fending off high-volume, high-quality bullshit. Bullshit that they are actively working to make harder to detect. And I think the first victims of that will be internet forums where text is the main signal, places like this and Reddit.