ND Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?
48 points by overgard 2 days ago | 39 comments on HN ~lite vlite-2.0
Summary ~lite
Discussion on potential AI astroturfing on Hacker News.
Lite evaluation by llama-4-scout-wai-psq · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available
Longitudinal 519 HN snapshots · 24 evals
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Audit Trail 44 entries
2026-03-08 19:25 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.600 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-08 19:25 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.60 (Strong positive) 0.00
2026-03-08 19:13 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.078 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-08 19:13 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.08 (Neutral) 0.00
2026-03-08 19:00 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-03-08 19:00 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Discussion on AI astroturfing, questioning authenticity of posts, no explicit rights discussion
2026-03-08 19:00 rater_validation_warn Lite validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 2W 0R - -
2026-03-08 18:55 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-03-08 18:55 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Discussion on AI astroturfing, questioning authenticity of posts, no explicit rights discussion
2026-03-08 18:55 rater_validation_warn Lite validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 1W 0R - -
2026-03-08 18:45 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (-0.04) - -
2026-03-08 18:45 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: -0.04 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Community discussion on AI astroturfing
2026-03-08 16:36 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.600 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-08 16:36 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.60 (Strong positive) 0.00
2026-03-08 16:23 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.078 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-08 16:23 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.08 (Neutral) 0.00
2026-03-08 15:59 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-03-08 15:59 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) +0.04
reasoning
Discussion on AI astroturfing, questioning authenticity of posts, no explicit rights discussion
2026-03-08 15:59 rater_validation_warn Lite validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 1W 0R - -
2026-03-08 15:48 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (-0.04) - -
2026-03-08 15:48 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: -0.04 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Community discussion on AI astroturfing
2026-03-08 00:31 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (-0.04) - -
2026-03-08 00:31 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: -0.04 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Community discussion on AI astroturfing
2026-03-08 00:28 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.600 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-08 00:28 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.60 (Strong positive) 0.00
2026-03-08 00:27 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.078 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-08 00:27 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.08 (Neutral) 0.00
2026-03-08 00:26 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (-0.04) - -
2026-03-08 00:26 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.04 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Discussion on AI astroturfing, questioning authenticity of posts, no explicit rights discussion
2026-03-08 00:26 rater_validation_warn Lite validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 1W 0R - -
2026-03-08 00:26 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (-0.04) - -
2026-03-08 00:26 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: -0.04 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Community discussion on AI astroturfing
2026-03-07 23:22 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.600 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-07 23:22 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.60 (Strong positive) 0.00
2026-03-07 23:22 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.078 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-07 23:22 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.08 (Neutral) 0.00
2026-03-07 23:22 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.04 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Discussion on AI astroturfing, questioning authenticity of posts, no explicit rights discussion
2026-03-07 23:21 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: -0.04 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Community discussion on AI astroturfing
2026-03-07 20:11 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.04 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Discussion on AI astroturfing, questioning authenticity of posts, no explicit rights discussion
2026-03-07 20:11 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.60 (Strong positive)
2026-03-07 20:11 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.08 (Neutral)
2026-03-07 20:07 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.04 (Neutral)
reasoning
Discussion on AI astroturfing, questioning authenticity of posts, no explicit rights discussion
2026-03-07 20:03 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: -0.04 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Community discussion on AI astroturfing
2026-03-07 19:58 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: -0.04 (Neutral)
reasoning
Community discussion on AI astroturfing