GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News
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#2The HN article that this is about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817
Congratulations to the authors of these comments, who correctly guessed that it was written by GPT-3:
Re: GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News
#3The best part is the very serious people shushing those who saw through the prank.
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#4The best part is the very serious people shushing those who saw through the prank.
To be fair: it sounds like a GPT-3 post was considered an insult back when. Not sure it passes as an insult anymore.
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#5Was this article written by GPT-3?
It's so meta even this article ;)
Re: GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News
#6More from the "author".
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#7Saw this coming a mile away.
A lot of articles that make it to the front page of HN are formulaic. We open ourselves up to this. Every blog post with shallow observations, every tutorial showcasing the first few pages of documentation, every biography on how to make money fast, every lucky shit that pontificates on how to manage teams and companies, every one selling an ebook, and everyone selling an ebook about selling an ebook after having sold 50 lifetime ebooks (topic being about success of course), and it was only a matter of time.
I count 3-4 posts about depression and existentialism per week on HN, and few ever reference the depth in which many great writers dig deep into the subject. Exercise more I guess.
Time to add ‘did a novice or a robot or a sociopathic narcissist write this?’ to our critical thinking toolbox.
Edit: I can’t tell if I fell for a gpt article about a gpt article, for what it’s worth. This is going to be a disaster when it hits the masses.
Re: GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News
#8The HN article that this is about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817 Congratulations to the authors of these comments, who correctly guessed that it was written by GPT-3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894742 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894000
Ah ah ah, the answer "your comment punches below the belt and isn't acceptable in a community like this.".
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#9I think GPT-3 could be blessing for Reddit and HN type forums.
Add some GPT-3 content and links into the feed. Decrease the vote weight for users who upvote them and increase vote weight for those who downvote them.
Re: GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News
#10The HN article that this is about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817 Congratulations to the authors of these comments, who correctly guessed that it was written by GPT-3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894742 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894000
Arrgh. I can't believe I missed that.
To be fair though: it's quite clear that all the discussion in that post is commenting on the headline and not the content. Bland self-improvement "life hacks" are one of the metaphorical crack pipes of this site. We all have way too much to say on the subject of our own productivity.
So I think it's less likely that HN was fooled by GPT-3 but that GPT-3 was good enough at filling a plausible article out around a tempting headline.