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One friend once told me, even a few years before ChatGPT, that they use AI to generate daily horoscopes in his online newspaper. Using far more simple models.
by shp0ngle 3y ago
One friend once told me, even a few years before ChatGPT, that they use AI to generate daily horoscopes in his online newspaper. Using far more simple models.
Nobody ever noticed.
- mtmail 3y ago20 years ago (HTML was still king, Javascript hardly used) I worked on a horoscope product. The data provider had all daily/weekly/monthly horoscopes of the coming year ready. Whatever their process, I assume manual, must have been straight forward.
- kozinc 3y agoWell horoscopes do tend to be general enough they might as well apply to nearly everybody, so I'd believe it.
- Filligree 3y agoDidn't they notice the accuracy of the predictions went down? /s
- stabbles 3y agoThe AI might as well look like this old_horoscopes[rand() % N] and nobody will ever notice.
- Aurornis 3y agoContext “mixers” that put together copy and rearranged sentences were popular in black hat SEO for years. The early versions of ChatGPT have been used to generate SEO and marketing copy since ChatGPT 2. This has been going on for a long time. The same low-quality sites that you ignored 2 years ago are just getting slightly better content that you’ll never read.
- pradn 3y agoText generation using word/sentence/phrase-level ad-libs is so simple its a common homework assignment for first-year programmers. You really don't need much. There's even tools like Tracery that let you construct grammars and vocabularies as a form of textual generative art.