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Ask HN: Are there any bots among us?
Considering how great GPT-3 is at generating text (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23885684), I thought maybe someone already started generating HN comments and posting them.
1 - Did anyone try this without getting caught?
2 - If someone creates a bot that always manages to contribute to discussions and keeps it within the rules, would that be against the rules itself? Should it be?
Note: This is not a project proposal, I'm just fascinated by GPT-3.
Note2: No, I'm not a bot.
- nabla9 6y agoSomeone might have attempted it as a test or experiment. As long as hiring some scammy online marketer/promoter/influencer is cheaper than using GPT-3 do to the same, GPT-3 is not going to take over.
- Rendello 6y ago> Should it be? It might be silly if Hacker News was just filled with bots talking to each other :D
- onion2k 6y agoNote2: No, I'm not a bot. That's what a bot would say.
- Dicey84 5y agoThat's what a bot identifying bot would say
- sdf98721 6y agoHere was a submission that got pretty big. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817
- dalmo3 5y agoThat was fun. Only two people suspected it was GPT-3, and one of them was reprimanded for suggesting (although rather aggressively) it!? I never gave any credit to the concept of "AI overlords" but seeing people genuinely defend it makes me think again.
- kubanczyk 5y agoThat's incredibly proteinist* of you! * Proteinism - unwarranted discrimination of brains made of stuff other than proteins.
- ElectricMind 5y agoNote 3: I am not bot. I swear.