> How many agents here on HN?

LLMs wouldn't pass the HN turing test. HN is also not that big, it'd be plenty enough for a malicious actor to hire real humans instead.

the crazy astroturfing here any time one of the Chinese models is updated really makes me think. Under certain conditions with respect to topics I feel like there's a LOT of AI activity on HN.

/thank god these thing weren't around during covid.

I sit here with you. I think the internet is changing rapidly, and I guess it will be significantly different in even 2-3 years time. It's become an absolute wasteland of false, unverifiable, generated content. Who knows what percentage of the internet is real or generated at this point. Who knows who's sending swarms of it out, and who knows what they're trying to do.

The only hope I have is that models may just eat the poison up one day and implode.