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If that comment is generated, I will quit my current job and work full time on AI. I don't believe it.

by Davidzheng 6y ago

lazzlazzlazz 6y ago
It's definitely generated. But excellent nonetheless.
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317070 6y ago
All the blogs posted by e.g. this user [0] were generated by GPT-3. [1] Some of those reached the top of HN. That comment indeed looks a lot like it is generated. It has correlated a bunch of words, but it did not understand that the link between UI and AI is tenuous. It is probably one of the few comments where it is so glaringly obvious. There are likely a lot more comments around which are generated but which went unnoticed. This comment is not generated, as the links below are dated after the GPT-3 dataset was scraped. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adolos https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adolos [1] https://adolos.substack.com/p/what-i-would-do-with-gpt-3-if-i-had https://adolos.substack.com/p/what-i-would-do-with-gpt-3-if-...
- amelius 6y ago
  Isn't gpt3-generated prose always seeded by some words or sentences? I'm curious what the poster used as seed, and why/if they chose to focus on UI? Would it be possible to use gpt3 to "beautify" existing prose without changing its meaning? Now that would be useful!
  - rytill 6y ago
    The prompt design likely has as input the HN title, and potentially some other metadata, but not necessarily the first few words of the comment.
- shawnz 6y ago
  Incredible. People in those threads are accusing the "author" of being GPT-3, and other commenters are chastising them for being so disrespectful as to suggest such a thing.
  - dang 6y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165171
    - shawnz 6y ago
      To be clear, I'm not saying that person was wrong to criticize the other post necessarily. I just think it's a testament to the abilities of GPT-3 that it could fool a reasonable person.
      - dang 6y ago
        That would be true if it had actually happened, but it didn't. What happened is that someone faked it to exploit people's desire for such a thing to happen, and then used the claim to get a lot of attention, including getting some journalists to write about it—whether because they actually believed it, or simply because it was such an attention-getter.
- dang 6y ago
  That story is bogus. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165040 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24063832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24063832. In a way the real story is that people are so eager to believe it that it didn't matter that it was untrue. Like Voltaire's God, if it didn't exist it was necessary to invent it.
thewarrior 6y ago
AI is now good enough to generate comments like that so you probably should :)
arthurcolle 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxHITqC5rxE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxHITqC5rxE

If that comment is generated, I will quit my current job and work full time on AI. I don't believe it.

lazzlazzlazz 6y ago

It's definitely generated. But excellent nonetheless.

deleted 6y ago

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317070 6y ago

All the blogs posted by e.g. this user [0] were generated by GPT-3. [1] Some of those reached the top of HN. That comment indeed looks a lot like it is generated. It has correlated a bunch of words, but it did not understand that the link between UI and AI is tenuous. It is probably one of the few comments where it is so glaringly obvious. There are likely a lot more comments around which are generated but which went unnoticed. This comment is not generated, as the links below are dated after the GPT-3 dataset was scraped. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adolos https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adolos [1] https://adolos.substack.com/p/what-i-would-do-with-gpt-3-if-i-had https://adolos.substack.com/p/what-i-would-do-with-gpt-3-if-...

amelius 6y ago
Isn't gpt3-generated prose always seeded by some words or sentences? I'm curious what the poster used as seed, and why/if they chose to focus on UI? Would it be possible to use gpt3 to "beautify" existing prose without changing its meaning? Now that would be useful!
- rytill 6y ago
  The prompt design likely has as input the HN title, and potentially some other metadata, but not necessarily the first few words of the comment.
shawnz 6y ago
Incredible. People in those threads are accusing the "author" of being GPT-3, and other commenters are chastising them for being so disrespectful as to suggest such a thing.
- dang 6y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165171
  - shawnz 6y ago
    To be clear, I'm not saying that person was wrong to criticize the other post necessarily. I just think it's a testament to the abilities of GPT-3 that it could fool a reasonable person.
    - dang 6y ago
      That would be true if it had actually happened, but it didn't. What happened is that someone faked it to exploit people's desire for such a thing to happen, and then used the claim to get a lot of attention, including getting some journalists to write about it—whether because they actually believed it, or simply because it was such an attention-getter.
dang 6y ago
That story is bogus. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165040 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24063832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24063832. In a way the real story is that people are so eager to believe it that it didn't matter that it was untrue. Like Voltaire's God, if it didn't exist it was necessary to invent it.

thewarrior 6y ago

AI is now good enough to generate comments like that so you probably should :)

arthurcolle 6y ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxHITqC5rxE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxHITqC5rxE