Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?
They&#x27;re already banned—HN has never allowed bots or generated responses. If we have to, we&#x27;ll add that explicitly to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>, but I&#x27;d say it already follows from the rules that are in there. We don&#x27;t want canned responses from humans either!<p>Edit: It&#x27;s a bit hard to point to past explanations since the word &quot;bots&quot; appears in many contexts, but I did find these:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33911426">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33911426</a> (Dec 2022)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32571890">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32571890</a> (Aug 2022)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27558392">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27558392</a> (June 2021)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26693590">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26693590</a> (April 2021)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22744611">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22744611</a> (April 2020)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22427782">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22427782</a> (Feb 2020)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21774797">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21774797</a> (Dec 2019)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19325914">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19325914</a> (March 2019)<p>We&#x27;ve already banned a few accounts that appear to be spamming the threads with generated comments, and I&#x27;m happy to keep doing that, even though there&#x27;s a margin of error.<p>The best solution, though, is to raise the community bar for what counts as a good comment. Whatever ChatGPT (or similar) can generate, humans need to do better. If we reach the point where the humans simply can&#x27;t do better, well, then it won&#x27;t matter*. But that&#x27;s a ways off.<p>Therefore, let&#x27;s all stop writing lazy and over-conventional comments, and make our posts so thoughtful that the question &quot;is this ChatGPT?&quot; never comes up.<p>* Edit: urgh, I didn&#x27;t mean that! I just mean it will be a different problem at that point.