(Normally I wouldn't duplicate a comment but this information applies equally to both your post and Tiberium's.)
Attacking another user like this is not acceptable, regardless of how/whether they used an LLM. It just adds poison to the site and community you're trying to defend. Please don't do that.
Users have different understandings of how to use LLMs appropriately. That's normal, since society is just beginning to figure this out. New users to HN should be welcomed, not attacked, and respectfully given information about local norms*.
This issue is complex with non-native English speakers, many of whom are using LLMs to try to improve their English. Often they aren't generating text outright but asking an LLM to edit it, and they don't realize that doing this can leave as many LLM imprints on their text as generating it outright.
* The explanation part could go like this: (1) LLM-generated/edited comments aren't allowed on HN (https://qht.co/newsguidelines.html); (2) the community mostly doesn't want to read LLM-generated/edited articles either; (3) there is little if any difference between using an LLM to edit text vs. generate it outright - the community will react much the same either way.
Attacking another user like this is not acceptable, regardless of how/whether they used an LLM. It just adds poison to the site and community you're trying to defend. Please don't do that.
Users have different understandings of how to use LLMs appropriately. That's normal, since society is just beginning to figure this out. New users to HN should be welcomed, not attacked, and respectfully given information about local norms*.
This issue is complex with non-native English speakers, many of whom are using LLMs to try to improve their English. Often they aren't generating text outright but asking an LLM to edit it, and they don't realize that doing this can leave as many LLM imprints on their text as generating it outright.
What such users need is clear explanation and encouragement to write in their own voice (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), not hostility and shaming from the community they just entered.
* The explanation part could go like this: (1) LLM-generated/edited comments aren't allowed on HN (https://qht.co/newsguidelines.html); (2) the community mostly doesn't want to read LLM-generated/edited articles either; (3) there is little if any difference between using an LLM to edit text vs. generate it outright - the community will react much the same either way.