High quality anecdata are exactly the reason why I love HN. Thanks for posting about it.
> fake AI accounts
First, how do you identify them? Is it strictly admins monitoring posts/server-side logs or do users report odd behaviour?Second, what is the purpose of these accounts? Are they basically running submarine adverts, or are they just trolling (to harm the community)?
A starting point for study;
AI Deception: A Survey of Examples, Risks, and Potential Solutions - https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14752
Deception Analysis with Artificial Intelligence: An Interdisciplinary Perspective - https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05724
Eagerness.. you let them work through a endless labyrinth of forms. While the human drops out after the 2nd form- the ai is willing to go all the way always.