Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?

Post by randomsearch » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 10:46 PM UTC

psychphysic wrote: post #345

randomsearch wrote: post #290

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I agree. ChatGPT has made me realise the gulf between “short form essay” school writing and the professionals. Here’s an example article that begins with the cliched GPT-generated intro, and then switches up into crafted prose: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatg...

I agree with the under current what chatGPT does well is making a good first draft of a text which is intended to be mostly neutral. It is to communication what calculators are to mathematics.

Post by tobtahcia » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 11:26 PM UTC

FridgeSeal wrote: post #250

Aeolun wrote: post #180

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If I can’t determine your comment is by a bot, does it make a difference? You are just a random name on the internet.

I mean, I’d certainly prefer to be engaged in conversation with actual humans, who have actual experience and motivation. If I want to talk to the latest iteration of the gpt-parrot-robot, I’ll go to the gpt site and talk to it there.

Post by tobtahcia » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 11:58 PM UTC

kderbyma wrote: post #263

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Agreed. I chatted with it about the Chinese remainder theorem today and it gave me an example that didn't work and then insisted that 30 is not divisible by 2 when I questioned it. This was simple enough to spot but I was halfway through the example by the time I realized I couldn't trust it at all. Its confidence is annoying.

It told me the longest known prime number ended with a 2. Definitely not accurate when it comes to math.

Post by tobtahcia » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 12:12 AM UTC

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #105

drusepth wrote: post #97

This debate reminds me a lot of early-Quora moderation discussions over anonymous users. People wanted to mass-ban any answers from "anonymous" because they weren't from "real people". I argued that, in a public forum, questions/answers should be judged on their content, rather than "who" wrote them. People disagreed. Anonymous functionality on Quora has since been gutted. AI-generated content seems similar. If a com…

Answer: Because AI-generated content is (frequently) lower quality while maintaining the appearance of high quality.

Post by midoridensha » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 12:51 AM UTC

fragmede wrote: post #268

midoridensha wrote: post #175

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Seriously, have people here not used Nextdoor? Local communities are absolutely full of toxicity.

Have you considered moving? It very much depends on where you live. Sorry you live in such a toxic neighborhood. Other places are quaint and charming and have posts with cat photography and local honey bee honey sales and baby goats when it's that time of year. Other places get posts complaining about "those people" (for all sorts of different definitions of "those people", and each time you get to place a game of "i…