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I played with this and it is super interesting (almost made me register a couple domain names!) That said, to me, it once again reinforces the belief that a large factor in GPT-3 amazingness is the taste in prompting/filtering that humans apply to it, that is, it produces a ton of crap that does not catch our eye that we just silently ignore and discard, but we will amplify and share amongst ourselves the output that…

There's a subset of words produced by the site that trigger obvious and amusing ideas of what they could mean in the reader, but the generated definitions have nothing to do with that, and usually do not make much sense (besides being sometimes grammatically incorrect). It's evident that the software has no semantic understanding of what it generates. The rare occasions where the definitions appear to (almost) make creative sense are just statistical flukes.

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#224

Appears to be a collection of perfectly cromulent words; someone should propulgate them into wider use in order to embiggen the vocabulary of our youth.

I understood every word of that!

What even makes a word 'real'? I think is the bigger question, if you can say something that everyone implicitly understands, is that not real?

Re: This word does not exist

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Author here! Funny to see this at the top of HN today -- happy to answer any questions (source code is here https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist ) Shameless plug for my other "this x does not exist": This Fucked Up Homer Does Not Exist https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com/

Ahh, and you've made the wise decision to NFTify the fucked up Homers! Nothing says "investment vehicle" like-- hey, wait a minute!! That's a fucked up Bart!

Good day, sir!

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post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh I don't disagree that the "best of gpt-3" on twitter is automated hyperbole machine.^ But I think at least in HN, a lot of people have looked at somewhat more objective sources too. The standard way to prove a trick shot is to film yourself do two or three in a row. I agree these are tricks, and a lot are unproven. Some are proven though, FWIW. Anyway, if the damn thing can do me 10%-60% of the time in a non trivi…

Absolutely. The "problem" essentially goes away with a cyborg approach: let GPT-3 generate its 10 netcan comments, then have a human do a little refining, maybe reframe the prompt, edit the result a little, and bam! Much scarier! Not that a sufficiently determined human couldn't ape someone's comment style, but GPT-3 is a force multiplier in the same way that sockpuppet management software is for the professional soc…

Messaging apps already do a bare version of suggesting auto-replies. It's mostly it's a texting-while-driving aid, so they keep it concise and uncomplicated. Code completion already exists. Spam. Gradual steps have places to start stepping.

Re: This word does not exist

#228

Author here! Funny to see this at the top of HN today -- happy to answer any questions (source code is here https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist ) Shameless plug for my other "this x does not exist": This Fucked Up Homer Does Not Exist https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com/

Please say you take requests.

Re: This word does not exist

#230

Author here! Funny to see this at the top of HN today -- happy to answer any questions (source code is here https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist ) Shameless plug for my other "this x does not exist": This Fucked Up Homer Does Not Exist https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com/

does the definition exist or is that machine-generated too?
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