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[–]happysmash27[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

As you might have guessed, it's GPT-3 again. GPT-3 is very convincing in Turing tests even with very basic configuration, and can pretty convincingly emulate the type of human who always pretends they know everything and convincingly sounds like it when they actually don't, but, as seen in posts linked from it (the article linked at the beginning of this comment, not in this post), can even communicate when a question makes no sense or its reasoning when given the right seed. It's amazing, pretty scary, and makes me really want to learn more about AI to stay ahead of the curve, as have many things lately.

Porr says he wanted to prove that GPT-3 could be passed off as a human writer. Indeed, despite the algorithm’s somewhat weird writing pattern and occasional errors, only three or four of the dozens of people who commented on his top post on Hacker News raised suspicions that it might have been generated by an algorithm. All those comments were immediately downvoted by other community members.

That's one of the scariest parts ↑ . People thought GPT-3 was a real human and downvoted people suspicious of it for what seemed like an ad hominem attack. It was at this point in reading that I decided to X-Post to SaidIt.

Some online content has so little substance that it seems like it was written by bots. How do we tell it apart from stuff actually written by bots? And… what if some of this stuff was already written by bots before, but we just didn't notice?

Can you prove I'm not a robot? You might get a decent idea by diving deep into my account history under this username (it goes back almost 10 years now and includes my voice on YouTube), but if I did not have such account history, I suspect it would be quite a challenge these days.

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[–]happysmash27[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You're fast. I hadn't even finished writing my own comment on this post before you replied! Thank you for the link. I guess I will have to edit my submission statement to be a comment on your post as well.

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No problem.

[–]hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

From the article:

“It's possible that there's gonna just be a flood of mediocre blog content because now the barrier to entry is so easy,” he says. “I think the value of online content is going to be reduced a lot.”

I think they're about 20 years too late for that.