An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills(old.reddit.com)
138 pointsby pabs38 hours ago3 comments
  • spondyl8 hours ago
    This is effectively a duplicate of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528

    I would also encourage taking a critical look at the underlying investigation as it seems mostly LLM generated without a huge amount of manual due dilligence

    • dang4 hours ago
      Ah, sorry, I missed that. Comments moved thither now. Thanks!
    • zahlman7 hours ago
      I also submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370954 because it was pointed out to me that a Reddit submission about the same story on r/linux had been taken down. If there was LLM content I suppose that might at least partially explain a moderator decision there... ?
      • SilverElfin7 hours ago
        No, the mods did not make a decision. It got flagged by an auto moderator bot, because of mass flagging. The mass flagging seems to be a brigade that happened on prior posts in that same subreddit discussing this topic of age verification. I don’t have any definite evidence, but it seems odd that a topic that is so relevant to that community would be flagged, so I assume it is a coordinated attack.
        • intended7 hours ago
          I’ve moderated on Reddit before - a mass report bot on r/linux specifically for age verification is too strangely niche. Also automod doesn’t remove flagged posts, unless it has been set up to do it.

          It’s also very definitely ai generated, and makes several claims and implication. Users may have reported it as well.

          I would hesitate to assume coordinated behavior at this stage.

    • altairprime8 hours ago
      Drop an email to the mods about both points! They can fix the dupe and may have an interest in the LLM point as well.
    • SilverElfin7 hours ago
      Maybe it’s a dupe but I think it’s an important topic to discuss. And even if it is mostly LLM generated, that doesn’t mean it is completely invalid. Some of the major points around Meta’s lobbying, and Anthropic’s donations, are seemingly valid.
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  • dang7 hours ago
    Url changed from https://lwn.net/Articles/1062779/, which points to this.
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