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Can't be that hard to train GPT on HN comments. Plus if someone were to do it, they probably know of HN. I could definitely see someone already having trained
by lordnacho 5y ago
Can't be that hard to train GPT on HN comments. Plus if someone were to do it, they probably know of HN.
I could definitely see someone already having trained a bot to write HN comments and posting them.
What's anyone going to do about it? It's super hard to write a discriminator that works well enough to not destroy the site for everyone.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Can't be that hard to train GPT on HN comments. Yes, which will produce things that are stylistically similar to HN comments, but without any connection to external reality beyond the training data and prompt. That might provide believable comments, but not things likely to be treated as high-quality ones, and not virtual posters that respond well to things like moderation warnings from dang.
- gus_massa 5y agoI think it's possible to train the bot to write oneliners, but onliners are usually downvoted here. Replies to comments are difficult, so I guess the bot must just write somewhat related top level comments. It will accumulate a lot of "Did you RTFA?" and also polite request for clarifications, and it will be suspicious that the bot never replies or replies with nonsense. If every commit has a link to http://www.example.com http://www.example.com then people will notice and start flagging. I guess it can fly under the radar posting a few top level bland comments per week in the megathreads with a few hundred comments, but I don't imagine how this can be used to gain anything.
- gmfawcett 5y agoBut HN also adores tangents, and that gives plenty of room for GPT-3 to succeed. You could affect topical discussion merely by distracting it in several directions.