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

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Post by ColanR »

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.)

I mean, there's not much to elaborate on beyond what they said: "Zero substantive content, pure regurgitation."

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

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Post by tanilama »

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.

I am impressed by the result there.

I read the article with a motivation trying to find fault in it. Albeit being somewhat repetitive, it doesn't appear to be a piece that is inhuman.

The model even knows to demonstrate its idea with examples, which is pretty wow worthy.

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

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Post by lajawfe »

minimaxir wrote: post #20

HN submission from the blog post author, where the comments from dang reveal the author engaged in voting manipulation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24062702

With that there is no credibility to the blog being actually generated by GPT-3, or at least being heavily cherry picked.

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

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Post by atmosx »

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?

Any evidence to suggest that HN crowd distribution doesn't lean towards Pareto?

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

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

drivingmenuts wrote: post #12
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.

So, you’re experimenting on users without their knowledge? There’s a thing called ethics. You might want to look into that.

Who said users can't be told about the system?

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

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Post by plorkyeran »

greenyoda wrote: post #26
drivingmenuts wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, you’re experimenting on users without their knowledge? There’s a thing called ethics. You might want to look into that.

Isn't every single ad ever created experimenting on users without their knowledge? I.e., will the user click on this ad or buy the product if we show them this content? That has much greater probability of adverse consequences for the user than the proposed experiment.

Sure, I have no problem with calling all advertising unethical. A lot of software A/B tests also land in unethical territory too.

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

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Post by cellular »

I couldn't read this article. I was convinced it was another AI generated text. I just scrolled to the bottom to see if I was right. Then didn't read anyway because it could still probably be an ai.

You guys saw the last ai generated text about ai generated text-right?

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

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Post by cs702 »

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

This is only the tip of the iceberg.

I'm certain GPT-3 has been commenting on HN threads for a while now. In some cases, its presence has been disclosed (see, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23886503) In other cases, GPT-3's presence has not been disclosed; the machine has been pretending to be a human being, largely unnoticed. Consider only how easy it is for it to write short, punchy comments -- say, one to three sentences long.

By implication, there's a high probability that we -- you, me, and everyone else on HN -- have been upvoting and downvoting GPT-3 comments for a while without realizing it.

And the technology is only going to get better.

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

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Post by School-Cotton »

ColanR wrote: post #41
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

I mean, there's not much to elaborate on beyond what they said: "Zero substantive content, pure regurgitation."

It's not true, though. There really is substantive content in that blog post (although it's trite and probably useless advice, it's certainly making a real argument).
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