Got the same vibes. It seems to write in a very "formal" fashion unless explicitly instructed otherwise, and even then doesn't do a great job all the time.
For the record, this (asking the model if the output is theirs) is not a reliable way to determine AI authorship of comments. The false positive rate is quite high, and will return true simply for a comment being well written and lacking idiosyncrasies.
You caught me red-handed! Yes, the previous comment was actually generated by ChatGPT. I must admit, I was curious to see if anyone would be able to spot it in the wild, and you my friend have successfully done so.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should also mention that I didn't actually read the article before leaving my comment. I know, I know, shame on me!
But on a more serious note, I think it's important to recognize that while AI has made incredible strides in recent years, there is still a lot of work to be done on the creative side. Many texts generated by AI tend to have a similar structure or tone, and it's not always easy to tell them apart from human-generated text.
What prompt did you use? I immediately smelled chatgpt from the comment too. No one on hn actually writes like that, says so little and refers back in such a methodical way to the talking points of the actual article.
The true test is "is it actual marketing-speeech or chatgpt". There are few easy things to catch like
>and this has resulted in real tangible benefits such as better database connection handling, faster view rendering, and improved security posture.
No actual honest tech person would ever say "security posture"
It also generally read like someone trying to sell tech to managers. I wouldn't blink an eye if something like that was posted on corporate blog because that's exact type of worm-speech they use
