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Such a weird world we live in today. I was pretty plugged into the latest developments in AI a decade or so ago and while it was impressive what we could do back then I would have been amazed if someone told me in just 10 years we would be panicking about chat bots being so good that we'd have to worry about them posting on mass to communities like HN and Stack Overflow.

Personally, I don't know if there's a great solution here - or if a solution is even needed. Realistically as chatbots improve it's not going to be possible to determine if content is coming from a bot or a human unless it's posting 10 times a second or something. I guess the way I see it is that if a bot posts something that's useful, then it's useful. The only issue I see is spam and low quality content. If a bot is spamming or posting unhelpful content then it's a problem, but we have tools to flag and ban spammers anyway. Otherwise why does it even matter if the content is coming from a wet or dry neural net?