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The other way to look at it is that HN comments are indistinguishable from GPT-3 generated sentences. Hell, even a standard Markov chain would suffice.
by throwawayinfo 6y ago
The other way to look at it is that HN comments are indistinguishable from GPT-3 generated sentences. Hell, even a standard Markov chain would suffice.
- espadrine 6y agoThat is as irrelevant as the people second-guessing messages: “was this written by a woman?” Judge the content, not the source.
- evolve2k 6y agoI think a key issue is that in any text we use incomplete indicators to determine legitimacy. Deciding on the legitimacy of an “opinion” comes down to meta ways of assessing; including the length of the text (HN rewards longer responses if they can maintain coherence and interest), the language style used (don’t make a technical mistake and use a technical term in the wrong context), the logic with which the argument is laid out, the emotional tone of the writer (No jokes on HN please). All of these are now gameable leading to say for risk for example of state actors shifting our collective opinions on a huge range of topics. I regularly make spelling mistakes in my posts and when I don’t correct them I loose points as I think the coherence and easy of reading goes down. GPT3 is unlikely to have the same issues.