Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

stackroboflow.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 143 posts

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

#91

Post by Findus23 »

I can claim to have experience [0] with generating funny nonsense based on Stackoverflow data (what a wired thing to say :))

Seems like you beat me to my plan to make a Neural Network based variant and I really like the results (especially that they stay a topic instead of totally drifting off into fun nonsense like my Markov Chains.

Have you tried also using other Stackexchange sites as a source? In my experience they result in more fun questions as they have more "human" interactions (especially the more personal advice based sites) which creates things like: - Do Greeks driving affect the whaling industry? - Essential windsurfing equipment to fish? - Do mountaineers eat grass? - Can I toast

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16947038

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

#93

Post by inostia »

gudok wrote: post #75

I reviewed 1600 edits at StackOverflow. And I can say that some of the automatically generated questions are more intelligible than the average SO question. For example, this one looks fine to me: https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/11235

It's so close to being intelligible, but I still can't quite parse it, like so many actual SO posts.

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

#94

Post by yeldarb »

Findus23 wrote: post #91

I can claim to have experience [0] with generating funny nonsense based on Stackoverflow data (what a wired thing to say :)) Seems like you beat me to my plan to make a Neural Network based variant and I really like the results (especially that they stay a topic instead of totally drifting off into fun nonsense like my Markov Chains. Have you tried also using other Stackexchange sites as a source? In my experience th…

I haven't yet! It's on my list of things I'd like to try.

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

#95

Post by jachee »

avip wrote: post #80
ryandrake wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Terrifying -> inevitable. Imagine a botnet full of fake AI users trained with a corpus of legit HN posts. Let them loose commenting on random articles, beginning slowly but ramping up until they’re 99% of all comments. In a few years, the standard Silicon Valley “Growth Hacking” job description will include using AI to deploy fake content to your competitors’ sites, destroying their user community.

Is this a future? How much content on twitter/fb is autogenerated, auto-liked and auto-shared?

If the answer is not "zero" then the answer is "too much."

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

#97

Post by gwern »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #37
yeldarb wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I was heavily inspired by them :) Glad someone made the connection! I actually hadn't seen thisresumedoesnotexist.com yet; but I loved https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com and https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com

https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com Oh my god, some of these look terrifying, pure nightmare fuel.

You might enjoy https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net

Like the Airbnb, it's StyleGAN+GPT-2 (finetuned in this case on anime plot synopses+summaries: https://www.gwern.net/TWDNE#gpt-2-anime-plot-synopses-for-gp... ).

I'm currently training an improved 'portrait' anime StyleGAN to fix up some of the faces' issues.

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

#98

Post by rosser »

jerf wrote: post #62

"I have creating a PNG Image file where I am printing out the image's with different colors and Image Types. Now I am sure I am drawing properly, but what I'm seeing is that the image is not differently jpeg (ie FF or Chrome) and Safari (for Firefox) is different from the one in Firefox. " As a bit of a connoisseur of babblebots over the decades, one of the interesting things about this generation is that it is produ…

It's the Uncanny Valley of text synthesis.

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

#99

Post by naugtur »

avip wrote: post #68
yeldarb wrote: post #2

I created this site using a Fast.ai trained language model using the Stack Overflow data dump. Full writeup available here: https://stackroboflow.com/about/index.html Interesting things I’ve noticed so far: * It does a remarkably good job of context switching between programming languages based on the semantics of the question! If the question is about SQL it often includes SQL in tags. If it’s about JavaScript it wi…

Thanks, brilliant work! Some questions are downright hilarious (see a suite of automated packaging techniques [0]), and the broken English just adds extra ESL credibility to the questions. [0] >I want to write an update statement with a sequence of values I can run through a database. i've written the below code to broken up my character string into the columns. All of the articles i've read seem to suggest that I 'l…

I wouldn't doubt it was written by a human if I saw it on stackoverflow.

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

#100

Post by pjc50 »

avip wrote: post #80
ryandrake wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Terrifying -> inevitable. Imagine a botnet full of fake AI users trained with a corpus of legit HN posts. Let them loose commenting on random articles, beginning slowly but ramping up until they’re 99% of all comments. In a few years, the standard Silicon Valley “Growth Hacking” job description will include using AI to deploy fake content to your competitors’ sites, destroying their user community.

Is this a future? How much content on twitter/fb is autogenerated, auto-liked and auto-shared?

Some is deliberately auto-generated, like https://twitter.com/choochoobot ; but yes, there is definitely an awful lot of auto-liked auto-shared fake engagement out there.
Post reply on HN