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Re: GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News

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Post by happytoexplain »

anigbrowl wrote: post #3

The best part is the very serious people shushing those who saw through the prank.

I've seen this criticism a few times, specifically about the example in the article, and it's bonkers to me. What I see is somebody calling the blog post garbage, and another person saying that person was being hostile. In what possible interpretation is that a "very serious" person "shushing" somebody who "saw through the prank"? It's totally reasonable to interpret "this looks like an AI wrote it - regurgitated garbage" as primarily an insult. That it turned out to be factually true is unrelated to that.

Re: GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News

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Post by tialaramex »

DC-3 wrote: post #16
nabla9 wrote: post #9

I 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.

This is actually a great idea. I've noticed a trend recently in a subreddit I frequent that obviously wrong statements are suddenly getting upvoted. I'm not talking about things that conflict with my opinions - I'm talking about statements that are demonstrably and objectively incorrect. I think the issue is a critical mass of people very new to the topic at hand who upvote things that sound reasonable without having…

I don't see this happen often in areas where I'm an expert but I do see it, and it's weird.

There's a post somewhere, maybe one of the Stack Overflow sites or Reddit where somebody asks about how SSH works, and the answer given and upvoted is horribly wrong, it's like how somebody who half-understood an explanation of PGP might think SSH could work.

So I down-voted that and I wrote an explanation based on my understanding but referring to the RFC as I went, and, whenever I was surprised by the RFC, also checking the OpenSSH source code (the RFC is correct, but, you know, always worth checking).

It got downvoted. Zero comments. So clearly people are looking at these two explanations that are quite different and they are down-voting the one they... don't like?

Re: GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

dorkwood wrote: post #21

I remember skimming this article. My initial feeling was that it was written by someone who wasn't a native English speaker. It seems like I'll have to pay more close attention to that feeling in the future.

On the other hand, you could have been right. It could have been a non-native speaker.

I'd hate to end up in a situation where non-native speakers are accused of being bots...

Re: GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News

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Post by notJim »

Kuinox wrote: post #8
greenyoda wrote: post #2

The 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.".

It's possible to point out issues with a submission without insulting the submitter or author. Calling what is presumably a person the equivalent of GPT-3 is needlessly rude. Even insulting the work, but not the (presumed) person behind it is better.

Re: GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News

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Post by whymauri »

swyx wrote: post #23
Kuinox wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah ah ah, the answer "your comment punches below the belt and isn't acceptable in a community like this.".

is this the largest scale Turing test ever performed on an audience acutely aware of what a Turing test is?

Wow, good observation. I wouldn't be surprised if this is actually true.

Re: GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News

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Post by happytoexplain »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #30
Kuinox wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah ah ah, the answer "your comment punches below the belt and isn't acceptable in a community like this.".

The problem is that it's also true. Comments like that decrease the quality of the discussion by attacking the "author" rather than the content. (If the commenter had written even a couple sentences on why they suspected GPT-3, I would feel differently.)

Exactly. I can't tell if that poster actually suspects the content was generated, or if they are simply using the comparison as an insult.

Re: GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News

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Post by notJim »

nabla9 wrote: post #9

I 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.

Or even better, for repetitively-discussed topics, just generate the entire comment thread to save us all time. Examples: nuclear power, housing/transit policy, Tesla/Elon Musk.

Re: GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

swyx wrote: post #23
Kuinox wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah ah ah, the answer "your comment punches below the belt and isn't acceptable in a community like this.".

is this the largest scale Turing test ever performed on an audience acutely aware of what a Turing test is?

I think fewer people know what the Imitation game actually consists of than think they do - namely that a questioner has to guess whether a machine is a respondent to their questions, rather than another player. That certainly hasn't been tried with GPT-3 that I'm aware of.

However I would agree that it is an oblique version - that is, can a machine fool humans into thinking that they are human.

In which case I think it's probably safe to assume that GPT-3 has passed.

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