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I loved when that person posted a similar platitude article and it turned out to have been written by GPT 3. The article got a lot of comments and he didn't let
by nickthemagicman 6y ago
I loved when that person posted a similar platitude article and it turned out to have been written by GPT 3. The article got a lot of comments and he didn't let anyone on until days later.
- tomhoward 6y agoThinking about that incident, I realised that lightweight self-help posts is probably the only category of content for which that kind of stunt could work, partly because the copy of such articles is so generic that it can be (somewhat plausibly) machine-generated, but also because all you need is a sufficiently baity headline, and a whole lot of people will react to it and write comments about their reactions, without even reading the article. That was an important but mostly-overlooked aspect of that event; the title wasn't machine generated, and for many or even most of the commenters, the title was evidently all they read. Seems like a good reason to keep such posts of HN.
- nickthemagicman 6y agoThe writing was as good and generic as this article.
- tomhoward 6y agoSure, which is a comment on the quality of writing in this category of articles (though bear in mind the publisher of that post admitted to editing the copy, without showing the before/after and allowing us to make our own judgement of their work). But of course it doesn't matter if many of the the people commenting aren't reading the article anyway.