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Is this automatically generated? It looks like GPT-3 output, in that it superficially looks like a real summary, but it doesn't make much sense if you examine i
by mrob 6y ago
Is this automatically generated? It looks like GPT-3 output, in that it superficially looks like a real summary, but it doesn't make much sense if you examine it closely. The Annals of Mathematics quote is from an anecdote about Lev Pontryagin, not von Neumann or his assistant.
- KirillPanov 6y ago> it superficially looks like a real... but it doesn't make much sense if you examine it closely. In that case I think GPT-3 has been writing 80% of the comments on the interwebs since 2010 or so.
- luckylion 6y agoIt's automatically generated, but not ML, it's just scraping together other sources, likely from a Google search. If you look at their comment history and just pop some sentences into Google with quotes, you'll find the sources. Depending on when Google picks up HN-threads for more obscure topics, the bot will also copy parts of comments from the very same thread it's commenting on, e.g. here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26841134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26841134