Ask HN: Flag/gray out comments complaining about AI/LLM use in posts/comments?

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Ask HN: Flag/gray out comments complaining about AI/LLM use in posts/comments?

A Hacker News user proposed flagging or graying out comments that complain about AI or LLM use in posts and comments, citing the predictable and tedious nature of such discussions. The user compared the trend to past complaints about paywalls, which have since largely disappeared from the platform.

read1 min views18 publishedJun 2, 2026

| |||||||||||| 3 points by | It's getting tedious. Predictably devolves into "How do you know it's AI/LLM?" & "I know because of these tells..." Reminds me of years past and constant litany of complaints about paywalls. Such comments have for the most part disappeared. | ||||||||||| |

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