Comment by embedding-shape

Comment by embedding-shape 8 hours ago

> There are paid (micro) influencer campaigns going on and what not.

Extremely important to keep in mind when you read about LLMs, agents and what not both here, on reddit and elsewhere.

Just the other day I got offered 200 USD if I posted about some new version of a "agentic coding platform" on HN, which obviously is too little for me to compromise my ethics and morals, but makes it very clear how much of this must be going on, if me, some random user, gets offered money to just post about their platform. If I was offered that 15-20 years ago when I was broke and cleaning hotels, I'd probably take them up on their offer.

blackoil an hour ago

How can we be sure you aren't paid by bear cartel to push this post?

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woooooo 31 minutes ago

Bear cartel is a bunch of curmudgeons without tons of VC money. If they are being unfair, its purely for love of the game.

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buckwheatmilk 3 hours ago

> which obviously is too little for me to compromise my ethics and morals

What would be enough to compromise your ethics and morals? I'm sure they can accommodate.

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embedding-shape 3 hours ago

Hah, after submitting my comment, I actually though about it because I knew someone would eventually ask :)
I'm fortunate enough to live a very comfortable life after working myself to death, so I think for 20,000,000 USD I'd do it, happily so. 2,000,000 would be too little. So probably between those sit the real price to purchase my morals and ethics :)

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- grayhatter an hour ago
  
  Best I can do is t'ree fiddy.
  I can definitely be bought for much much less. But only because I'm pretty sure I could rave about some AI platform while still being honest about it. Why do you draw such a hard ethical line? I agree with your sentiment, AI is currently a net negative on the world that I care about. But I also believe people when they say it helps them. Despite their inability to articulate anything useful to me, or that I can understand.
  
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- buckwheatmilk 3 hours ago
  
  It wasn't a shot at you personally but the point of this was that AI companies are flush with money and desperate to show any kind of growth and willing to spend money to do that. I'm sure they are finding people that have some social following and will happily pocket couple extra green bills to present AI products in a positive light with little to no actual proof.
  
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  embedding-shape 2 hours ago
  
  > It wasn't a shot at you personally
  No shots fired, as far as I'm aware, so np :)
  > they are finding people that have some social following and will happily pocket couple extra green bills to present AI products in a positive light with little to no actual proof.
  No doubt about it, I don't think people realize how pervasive this really is though, people still sometimes tell me they trusted something on HN/reddit just because it was the most upvoted answer, or that they chose a product based on what was mentioned the most etc.
  
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jsksdkldld 8 hours ago

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fhd2 7 hours ago

Parent didn't mention Simon Willinson, and neither me nor parent appear to imply that _all_ people posting positively about LLMs are paid influencers, that'd be a ridiculous claim. It's just that there _are_ paid influencers, at every level, down to non-famous people getting a few bucks, and that's worth knowing.
Here's one thing I quickly found on one of Anthropic's campaigns on LinkedIn: https://www.favikon.com/blog/inside-anthropic-influencer-mar...

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embedding-shape 8 hours ago

Stop what? Posting on HN? :| What does this have to do with me?

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