Absolutely. The "problem" essentially goes away with a cyborg approach: let GPT-3 generate its 10 netcan comments, then have a human do a little refining, maybe

Absolutely. The "problem" essentially goes away with a cyborg approach: let GPT-3 generate its 10 netcan comments, then have a human do a little refining, maybe reframe the prompt, edit the result a little, and bam! Much scarier! Not that a sufficiently determined human couldn't ape someone's comment style, but GPT-3 is a force multiplier in the same way that sockpuppet management software is for the professional sockpuppeteer -- scales better, more effective, just makes everything easier. I've heard serious speculation that GPT-3 (or certainly its successors) might find utility for writers as a combination of a ghostwriter and Github Copilot. >^If a person uses the Tom Sawyer fence trick to automate a task, is that automation? If the machine does it, is the turn tables? It's not here yet, but the grim day on which I no longer communicate with anyone on the Internet for fear they're not actually a living conversational partner approaches. Even those I can cryptographically prove are people that I know will be suspects: "euurgh, I'm too busy to talk to this guy today, he's so boring. I'll just feed GPT-10 all our old conversations, tell it to be me, aaaand..."