Fake Books
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Fake Books
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#3#1 on HN and no comments? I'm curious how the ranking system here works... Posts with the greatest # of upvotes per minute?
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#4I think the problem is Amazons fundamentally broken reviews system.
Seems like the fake review bots are a lot smarter than the anti-measures applied by Amazon. And the fun part is that both parties are probably running on AWS ;)
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#5ML-generated content can be pretty funny. This is more an example of Amazon being a garbage distributor of crap; this is an example of fraud. I hope there's a followup of what punishments happen with such a grift from one the world's largest companies.
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#6#1 on HN and no comments? I'm curious how the ranking system here works... Posts with the greatest # of upvotes per minute?
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#7We knew it was coming once GPT-3 was released, but I personally didn’t think it will come so fast in a form of printed books.
I wonder how hard would it be to train a model that given a longer passage of text could tell with a high certainty that it’s machine generated?
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#8#1 on HN and no comments? I'm curious how the ranking system here works... Posts with the greatest # of upvotes per minute?
Amazon review bots upvoting HN articles about themselves?
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#9The 'book factory business oppportunity' trend spotted in the article is explored in depth in this excellent Dan Olson video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw
It is a great and informative watch.
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#10This has been a concern of mine for a while; I have also published absolute garbage just to see how far I can take it. I've published music under various pseudonyms, books underneath different pen-names... the list goes on. I've retracted such publications, but it is frightening if one person like myself had the curiosity to try, what is already out there, and, what a well-funded nation-state actor could do.
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