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Are you GPT-3?

misnome 5y ago
It does seem to be some sort of automated spam - a mix of the article, the same chunks of disconnected factlets and some random sprinkling of nonsense. Is it possible to flag a whole account? @mods?
- wffurr 5y ago
  The “random nonsense” in this particular example are the next/previous article links from the bottom of the page.
- mkl 5y ago
  I believe the whole account is flagged if enough comments are flagged by multiple people. I've already emailed dang.
  - misnome 5y ago
    Right it looks like 10 months ago it was an actual account, and either got hacked to karma-farm(?) or author decided to use as a throwaway test.
    - ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
      Check out the submission history.
      - afturkrull 5y ago
        Where did your comment go ? https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26843586&goto=item%3Fid%3D26843068%2326843586 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26843586&goto=item%3Fi...
        ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
        Oh, it was getting a bunch of downvotes, and it didn't really add much to the conversation, so I nuked it. I'll do that. It's not the downvotes that bother me; it's that I am not really adding to the conversation. I feel that it's important to add to the conversation; not just participate. That post was mostly whining about outsourced software and CS. Not my proudest moment.
        afturkrull 5y ago
        I found it interesting. Instead of down-voting a comment the down-voters should post a refutal. That would add to the conversation. I'm always prepared to change my mind. Instead of getting down-voted into oblivion.
Reventlov 5y ago
Yes it is.
defenestration 5y ago
Yes, it’s spamming at a lot of posts at the moment. See the other comments it has made.
comboy 5y ago
Pretty good karma for a bot.
raverbashing 5y ago
Definitely looks like an account that was possibly hijacked (due to age of account) to reach a higher karma Or just a GPT-3 experiment, that's possible as well
TylerLives 5y ago
This is amazing. I wonder what % of people would recognize that it wasn't written by a human. I thought that some parts were confusing but the idea that it was written by something like GPT never occurred to me.
- BlueTemplar 5y ago
  Meh, you don't need GPT-3 for this, I've used web Markov chain tools for quickly generating this kind of text from a sample like 15 years ago...
- indeedmug 5y ago
  I got fooled. But reading the original article I noticed that the generated comment just picks out some sentences from the original one and pastes them together. It's not generating the sentences themselves but string sentences together that fit a context.
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Are you GPT-3?

It does seem to be some sort of automated spam - a mix of the article, the same chunks of disconnected factlets and some random sprinkling of nonsense. Is it possible to flag a whole account? @mods?

wffurr 5y ago
The “random nonsense” in this particular example are the next/previous article links from the bottom of the page.
mkl 5y ago
I believe the whole account is flagged if enough comments are flagged by multiple people. I've already emailed dang.
- misnome 5y ago
  Right it looks like 10 months ago it was an actual account, and either got hacked to karma-farm(?) or author decided to use as a throwaway test.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
    Check out the submission history.
    - afturkrull 5y ago
      Where did your comment go ? https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26843586&goto=item%3Fid%3D26843068%2326843586 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26843586&goto=item%3Fi...
      - ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
        Oh, it was getting a bunch of downvotes, and it didn't really add much to the conversation, so I nuked it. I'll do that. It's not the downvotes that bother me; it's that I am not really adding to the conversation. I feel that it's important to add to the conversation; not just participate. That post was mostly whining about outsourced software and CS. Not my proudest moment.
        afturkrull 5y ago
        I found it interesting. Instead of down-voting a comment the down-voters should post a refutal. That would add to the conversation. I'm always prepared to change my mind. Instead of getting down-voted into oblivion.

Reventlov 5y ago

Yes it is.

defenestration 5y ago

Yes, it’s spamming at a lot of posts at the moment. See the other comments it has made.

comboy 5y ago

Pretty good karma for a bot.

raverbashing 5y ago

Definitely looks like an account that was possibly hijacked (due to age of account) to reach a higher karma Or just a GPT-3 experiment, that's possible as well

TylerLives 5y ago

This is amazing. I wonder what % of people would recognize that it wasn't written by a human. I thought that some parts were confusing but the idea that it was written by something like GPT never occurred to me.

BlueTemplar 5y ago
Meh, you don't need GPT-3 for this, I've used web Markov chain tools for quickly generating this kind of text from a sample like 15 years ago...
indeedmug 5y ago
I got fooled. But reading the original article I noticed that the generated comment just picks out some sentences from the original one and pastes them together. It's not generating the sentences themselves but string sentences together that fit a context.

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