How to detect bots' comments in your PH discussion? 🤖

Sometimes i use gpt to fix typos, and this makes my words sound like a bot! To avoid that, i force myself to be more tolerant to typos...

Ah, good idea if someone wants to build a Product Hunt plugin 👀

I also realized three things 1. Their replies are long/ verbose. 2. They'll summarize your post (e.g. "Great question Nika! Detecting bot comments is a real challenge especially as LLM technology proliferates bla bla bla") 3. The advice is generic (whereas you can tell when the advice is real because it contains some anecdote)

I find it intriguing how GPT bots, with their remarkable ability to generate text, have become the virtual chameleons of conversation. Certainly, it's a marvel how they weave words into sentences that are both perplexing and delightful. What's more interesting is their knack for turning even the most mundane queries into epic narratives, replete with vocabulary that sounds like it was plucked straight from a thesaurus on a caffeine high. It's almost as if these bots attended a prestigious language academy in a parallel universe where the motto was, "Why say 'good' when you can say 'exceedingly superb'?" 😏

Thank you for this checklist, was looking forward for something like this. Bots are starting to be real pain in the ass. Sometimes I even wonder if it's the beginning of end of internet :( EDIT: I use AI heavily for myself for ideation and research but flooding forums with shitty comments is not the use of it I would ever approve

What really scares me is when real people write like bots or worse.

This comment highlights the practical benefit of detecting comments from bots and uses an action verb hook to grab attention. It also mentions the target audience visitors to showcase relevance. "When you know — you know"

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Let's see how many bots are going to post comments on this discussion... 🤣

I was feeling the same thing. I think if you used LLMs enough you recognize their tone

they paraphrase the original post and include words like : enhance, elevate, in the realm of, navigate, unleash, unlock, Harness.

There are the whole networks of them Easy to spot if you check the Activity tab in their profile - they'll have the exact same product upvoted in the exact same order

Yeah I can definitely spot AI constructed comments too. Just by looking at the words they use. Totally over the top stuff like "your 1K kitty coins are like the digital equivalent of striking gold in a cat-filled mine!" 😂😂😂

nice one 😂 sadly they're growing by hour!

Actually, many "High-Level" bots can act like real humans, making it difficult to figure them out. They often come with well-prepared fake profiles and even use generated real-life photos. 😂

I recently tracked all launches and discussions over the past week and noticed a concerning trend. Many projects are inundated with the same bots in their launch discussions. Here’s what I observed: 1. Lack of Followers: These bots have very few followers, if any, and they are not following many others. 2. Poor Quality Photos: The quality of their profile pictures is very low, often pixelated and clearly not professionally made. 3. Template Names: They use names that follow repetitive, clichéd templates. 4. No Social Links: There are no links to any social media profiles. 5. No Active Projects: They don't have any active projects listed. 6. Low Coins Level: Their coins level is either zero or very low, usually not exceeding white. 7. Incomplete Profiles: Their profiles are poorly filled out, with minimal information. 8. Short Activity Span: Their maximum activity streak is no more than two days. These patterns suggest that these bots are not genuine users but are being used to artificially inflate activity and support for various projects.

I'm curious why anyone would create these bots to go around accounts and post comments in random discussions. Are they really trying to build activity in this way to use them for supporting unfair projects in the future?

There is a great article by Krissy Davis on WeAreDevelopers "How to Tell if Something Was Written by ChatGPT" The main points for me: - Keywords like: “cutting-edge software” or "ever-evolving landscape" - Unusually formal tone in text that's meant to be conversational or casual - A remarkable absence of meaning in the comment 🧐

Hey, Nika! Really good points, thank you! And what do you think? Do we need to report it if we're really sure that it is a bot? Once, I also had a comment that wasn't relevant to the discussion topic and asked me to open a strange link. I decided to report it. Do you think that was a good decision?