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Who says this isn't already happening?

>>siva7+(OP)
Reddit better hold their IPO soon or they'll get caught up in this. Pretty soon there will be dozens of different GPT/LLM-powered Reddit spam bots on Github. Some of them no doubt for political trolling. [1]

Phone, then ID-based verification is a stop gap, but IDV services will have to spin up to support the mass volume of verifying all humans.

[1] I kind of want to do this from an innocent / artistic perspective myself. Perhaps a bot that responds with a bunch of rhetorical questions or onomatopoeia. Then I'd scale it to the point people start noticing and feeling weirded out by it. "Is this the new Gen Alpha lingo?" Alas, I have too many other AI projects.

>>echelo+p6
The Anti-AI\GPT-Detection will soon be a multi-billion dollar industry

>>siva7+(OP)
I just tried to find a FOSS tool for converting MS Outlook .pst file to .mbox.

I first tried Google; the results are dominating by commercial crap.

Then I tried the "google reddit" trick to try and find some real people's opinions... but look at all the blatantly bullshit comments on this Reddit thread; https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/ae4cdg/good_ps...

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(if anyone is wondering, the best option for Windows is to use 'readpst' command via WSL. Comes in the 'pst-utils' package).

>>ChrisK+4c
So a GPT bot instead of the human commenters would make reddit more useful in the end, this is what you're saying right?

>>siva7+Ac
How so? The commercial organisations will be able to use a GPT bot to provide more believable comments, at greater scale, and cheaper.

>>siva7+pa
And it'll silently remove your real posts too, faster than the horrible moderation on reddit ever could!

>>ChrisK+4c
I'm blind maybe, but what are the blatantly bullshit comments? The spam of PST to MBOX?

>>deafpo+Of
Yeah they are almost all clearly spammy, broken english ads for paid software

>>deafpo+Of
Yes and if you look at the comment history of the posters in that thread, it is clear they are all spam accounts.

>>siva7+(OP)
If people see AI-generated comments on HN they should flag them and let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. HN is for humans to converse, and bots have never been allowed.

Of course it's not always easy to say what's AI-generated or not. But if an account is making a habit of it, it still seems possible to tell.