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You could have ChatGPT create unlimited simulated forum threads about news articles, but here you are on Hacker News

• xanderlewis 3y ago
  This is such a great example. Simple, but so telling.
  • apitman 3y ago
    And yet as time goes on we will become less and less certain which comments are made by humans.
    • xanderlewis 3y ago
      That's entirely orthogonal to the issue it was addressing. The point is that it doesn't matter how close the two can become (indeed, we're already pretty much there); people will always want to read stuff written by actual people (or at least a thinking being) than something purely generated by a model with no other grounding in reality.