I didn't downvote that comment when you commented, but I did it now.
I don't come to HN to read the auto-generated output of a system. If I wanted that I could generate the result myself. I come to HN because I'm interested in what people in the community have to say.
Showing up to a thread and saying "this is what an LLM generated" does not "gratify my intellectual curiosity" (per the FAQ) and, in my opinion, is not a practice to be encouraged.
Oh damn do I love a metadiscussion! I appreciate you taking a stand for quality discourse, and I agree 100% on your basic motivations, but I think this is overly dismissive.
I'd say an audio discussion of this 100+ page dissertation is directly gratifying my intellectual curiosity, if I'm someone who is interested but doesn't have time to skim 100+ pages. And yeah anyone could figure out how to do such a thing, but a) most people don't even know it's possible yet, b) it presumably takes some amount of expertise and/or paid credits, and c) it saves people time. I'd consider it to be pretty similar to the usual archive link comments, in that way; anyone could probably find it themselves, but they might not even think to try.
Finally, if I had to quote any one part of the guidelines to support my "LLMs are welcome on HN" claim:
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.
The guidelines don't mention any sort of institutionalized human-centric speciesism, so I'd say it's fair game. As my fave philosopher David Gunkel says: #RobotRights ;)
Obviously you're 100% correct to downvote a comment you think is distracting, I just thought I'd share my response on the broader question.
I don't come to HN to read the auto-generated output of a system. If I wanted that I could generate the result myself. I come to HN because I'm interested in what people in the community have to say.
Showing up to a thread and saying "this is what an LLM generated" does not "gratify my intellectual curiosity" (per the FAQ) and, in my opinion, is not a practice to be encouraged.