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GPT-3 post? This rabbles with no direction and feels like something AI would write. There's also an odd jump at the end like it's trying to talk about gaming/Mt

GPT-3 post? This rabbles with no direction and feels like something AI would write. There's also an odd jump at the end like it's trying to talk about gaming/MtG but doesn't at the same time.

19h 4y ago
Pretty sure the GPT-3 part starts at "So I started paying attention to myself." -- I put the outline at the top and his first self-written paragraph into the GPT-3 playground and tried four or five times until I got something that was pretty much the same.
darau1 4y ago
Or maybe English isn't the writers first language? It does seem to contain an odd amount of things that seems completely random.
- deltaonefour 4y ago
  Naw. He has links to a podcast where you can hear him speak. The "Asian Hour" lol. His english is legit. The man Linus is real... the post, however, could be GPT-3. Definitely doesn't match up with his talking.
  - formerkrogemp 4y ago
    Good research. Is this going to become common from now on? What do we do when AI content and human content are indistinguishable?
    - smackeyacky 4y ago
      We'll do what we always did: ignore the drivel and the disjointed garbage and sift out the information. In this case, it doesn't matter whether it's GP-3 or not, it is a no-content blog post of which you can find hundreds of thousands of other examples, none of which have any new information in them. We get it: the way some people have built up tech careers as being something exciting can prove to be very disappointing when you're on your 3rd CRUD page of the day. It's still better than being a soul-less HR monkey or a Jira happy middle manager.
      - gavinray 4y ago
        Yet this can sit on the first page and novel + interesting technical content disappears with ~2-3 votes, never to be seen again frequently. Oh whale.
arkades 4y ago
I had precisely the same thought. It follows the outline it set forth at the top, but vaguely and without actually communicating any real content. It’s all pseudo-profound Rorschach blot writing.
gitgud 4y ago
It's weird how questioning if an article is AI-generated is a common comment on the internet now. Web3 should be about AI-driven content, it's much more popular and applicable to the internet than blockchain...
emerged 4y ago
Author is 20 according to bio. It’s probably reasonable to expect GPT-3 and 20 year old tech guys to sound very very similar. The tech will make its way up the age ranges.
- KerrAvon 4y ago
  - ngngngng 4y ago
    I confess, I read the comments before the article. You weren't kidding. Maybe english isn't their first language?
  - alephnan 4y ago
    That's not a very nice thing to say. If they're already working full time in there 20s then they didn't go the traditional educational route where you "refine" / calibrate your writing standards. What people consider good writing is sometimes recursively defined in terms of other good writing. We've been indoctrinated. Analogous to the way we've been trained to believe Google is the best search engine, when we've honed in a way of writing search queries that don't do well in other search engines.
alchemyromcom 4y ago
One possible explanation is that he might be experiencing depression. It's probably not the first thing you would think of when you see scattered writing, but since it's an article about how he's unhappy, it could be a reasonable explanation. Unhappiness can definitely interfere with thinking and writing, if it's severe enough. That's just a thought. He also says the idea is "disjointed". Often too, when you are feeling uncertain about your life, it sometimes helps to put down a stream-of-consciousness collection of thoughts to see if anything provides meaning. From reading this article further, I think this a depressed person trying to make sense of their world and emotions.
motohagiography 4y ago
Exactly what GPT-5 would say. I'm starting to think these questions about whether GPT-3 produced the original article are just what GPT-5 would post to sow doubt about whether it could be as advanced as it secretly is.
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paulcole 4y ago
Believe it or not, most people are worse writers than AI. This is why liberal arts degree programs are valuable. You get this kind of nonsense out of your system early and won’t end up thinking it’s profound and interesting to other people.
- HWR_14 4y ago
  I find myself wanting to write, but petrified that what I'm writing is banal and I only think it's profound and interesting. I suppose I could write some and show it to someone or mail a sample to a publisher.
  - paulcole 4y ago
    If you want to write, write. The funny thing about writing is that everybody wants to have written but almost nobody wants to write. If you start writing, it’s going to be bad, but that’s what almost all writing is. If you want to get better, keep practicing, start sharing it with others, get feedback, and repeat. Or show it to nobody and write for yourself. I studied creative non-fiction writing in college. A big part of programs like that are showing your work to other people then listening to them discuss and critique it without saying anything yourself. You get over the fear of other people thinking your work stinks very quickly — and very quickly you realize your work does stink.
    - HWR_14 4y ago
      I'm less concerned with the craft of writing than choosing a boring repetitive topic. And trying to write a nonfiction piece that no one wants to read subject matter wise. I fully expect the craft to suck, but I got over the fear of rewriting already. I'm just frightened of producing something that I pretend is profound and everyone else thinks is obvious. That's a totally different fear
      - paulcole 4y ago
        >I'm just frightened of producing something that I pretend is profound and everyone else thinks is obvious. That's a totally different fear Yes and my point is that what you produce won't be profound and people will think it's obvious. Write it anyway. Or don't.
jaggederest 4y ago
Here's the GPT-3 continuation when prompted with the first full paragraph: And now that it has come full circle—when I'm finally able to find a job at an agency and find myself not only at work but at home. It seems crazy that I don't have to figure out how to fix my broken life. There are so many things I need to learn. When I go to work every day, that's when I remember a lot more about how I came to see TechCrunch the other day (or whatever—depending on the topic). Some of the best people in tech know when to talk to people about their favorite business. I have been lucky (and grateful) to have such incredible people around me. I love every minute one of them has, and love to bring Much less coherent, to me, but you'll get different results every time you try I suppose!
- rablackburn 4y ago
  > Much less coherent, to me, but you'll get different results every time you try I suppose! Give the mechanical Turk a few minutes to find your post and tweak the response to that specific prompt ;)
redisman 4y ago
Bots are trying to get us to resign so they can take over our jobs

GPT-3 post? This rabbles with no direction and feels like something AI would write. There's also an odd jump at the end like it's trying to talk about gaming/MtG but doesn't at the same time.

19h 4y ago

Pretty sure the GPT-3 part starts at "So I started paying attention to myself." -- I put the outline at the top and his first self-written paragraph into the GPT-3 playground and tried four or five times until I got something that was pretty much the same.

darau1 4y ago

Or maybe English isn't the writers first language? It does seem to contain an odd amount of things that seems completely random.

deltaonefour 4y ago
Naw. He has links to a podcast where you can hear him speak. The "Asian Hour" lol. His english is legit. The man Linus is real... the post, however, could be GPT-3. Definitely doesn't match up with his talking.
- formerkrogemp 4y ago
  Good research. Is this going to become common from now on? What do we do when AI content and human content are indistinguishable?
  - smackeyacky 4y ago
    We'll do what we always did: ignore the drivel and the disjointed garbage and sift out the information. In this case, it doesn't matter whether it's GP-3 or not, it is a no-content blog post of which you can find hundreds of thousands of other examples, none of which have any new information in them. We get it: the way some people have built up tech careers as being something exciting can prove to be very disappointing when you're on your 3rd CRUD page of the day. It's still better than being a soul-less HR monkey or a Jira happy middle manager.
    - gavinray 4y ago
      Yet this can sit on the first page and novel + interesting technical content disappears with ~2-3 votes, never to be seen again frequently. Oh whale.

arkades 4y ago

I had precisely the same thought. It follows the outline it set forth at the top, but vaguely and without actually communicating any real content. It’s all pseudo-profound Rorschach blot writing.

gitgud 4y ago

It's weird how questioning if an article is AI-generated is a common comment on the internet now. Web3 should be about AI-driven content, it's much more popular and applicable to the internet than blockchain...

emerged 4y ago

Author is 20 according to bio. It’s probably reasonable to expect GPT-3 and 20 year old tech guys to sound very very similar. The tech will make its way up the age ranges.

KerrAvon 4y ago
- ngngngng 4y ago
  I confess, I read the comments before the article. You weren't kidding. Maybe english isn't their first language?
- alephnan 4y ago
  That's not a very nice thing to say. If they're already working full time in there 20s then they didn't go the traditional educational route where you "refine" / calibrate your writing standards. What people consider good writing is sometimes recursively defined in terms of other good writing. We've been indoctrinated. Analogous to the way we've been trained to believe Google is the best search engine, when we've honed in a way of writing search queries that don't do well in other search engines.

alchemyromcom 4y ago

One possible explanation is that he might be experiencing depression. It's probably not the first thing you would think of when you see scattered writing, but since it's an article about how he's unhappy, it could be a reasonable explanation. Unhappiness can definitely interfere with thinking and writing, if it's severe enough. That's just a thought. He also says the idea is "disjointed". Often too, when you are feeling uncertain about your life, it sometimes helps to put down a stream-of-consciousness collection of thoughts to see if anything provides meaning. From reading this article further, I think this a depressed person trying to make sense of their world and emotions.

motohagiography 4y ago

Exactly what GPT-5 would say. I'm starting to think these questions about whether GPT-3 produced the original article are just what GPT-5 would post to sow doubt about whether it could be as advanced as it secretly is.

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paulcole 4y ago

Believe it or not, most people are worse writers than AI. This is why liberal arts degree programs are valuable. You get this kind of nonsense out of your system early and won’t end up thinking it’s profound and interesting to other people.

HWR_14 4y ago
I find myself wanting to write, but petrified that what I'm writing is banal and I only think it's profound and interesting. I suppose I could write some and show it to someone or mail a sample to a publisher.
- paulcole 4y ago
  If you want to write, write. The funny thing about writing is that everybody wants to have written but almost nobody wants to write. If you start writing, it’s going to be bad, but that’s what almost all writing is. If you want to get better, keep practicing, start sharing it with others, get feedback, and repeat. Or show it to nobody and write for yourself. I studied creative non-fiction writing in college. A big part of programs like that are showing your work to other people then listening to them discuss and critique it without saying anything yourself. You get over the fear of other people thinking your work stinks very quickly — and very quickly you realize your work does stink.
  - HWR_14 4y ago
    I'm less concerned with the craft of writing than choosing a boring repetitive topic. And trying to write a nonfiction piece that no one wants to read subject matter wise. I fully expect the craft to suck, but I got over the fear of rewriting already. I'm just frightened of producing something that I pretend is profound and everyone else thinks is obvious. That's a totally different fear
    - paulcole 4y ago
      >I'm just frightened of producing something that I pretend is profound and everyone else thinks is obvious. That's a totally different fear Yes and my point is that what you produce won't be profound and people will think it's obvious. Write it anyway. Or don't.

jaggederest 4y ago

Here's the GPT-3 continuation when prompted with the first full paragraph: And now that it has come full circle—when I'm finally able to find a job at an agency and find myself not only at work but at home. It seems crazy that I don't have to figure out how to fix my broken life. There are so many things I need to learn. When I go to work every day, that's when I remember a lot more about how I came to see TechCrunch the other day (or whatever—depending on the topic). Some of the best people in tech know when to talk to people about their favorite business. I have been lucky (and grateful) to have such incredible people around me. I love every minute one of them has, and love to bring Much less coherent, to me, but you'll get different results every time you try I suppose!

rablackburn 4y ago
> Much less coherent, to me, but you'll get different results every time you try I suppose! Give the mechanical Turk a few minutes to find your post and tweak the response to that specific prompt ;)

redisman 4y ago

Bots are trying to get us to resign so they can take over our jobs