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Re:OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin by threeseed on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:28PM (#23886268)
The truly scary part is SEO where GPT-3 could ruin search engines overnight.

Google at this point favours long form content for many search intents. Being able to generate thousands of these pages in one-click is a real problem. Not just because of popular topics e.g. "covid-19 symptoms" but more so for the long tail e.g. "should I drink coffee to cure covid-19".

Re:OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin by yyyk on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:39PM (#23886309)
Quite a lot of SEO already uses simple word generation techniques. It isn't clear GPT-3 is an improvement there - human text recognition might not be whatever Google does.

It may be that Google's algorithms don't care at all how human-like the text is, or that their own recognition algorithm/NN (whatever they use) isn't fooled. Even if it is affected, Google has the money and corpus to build its own competing NN to recognize GPT-3 text.

Re:OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin by mr__y on Sunday July 19, 2020 @02:38AM (#23887476)
While I have no doubts that they could build NN capable of recognizing GPT-3 text I believe that this would still pose a problem given the amount of content to be analyzed at the scale that Google deals with
Re:OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin by yyyk on Sunday July 19, 2020 @07:47AM (#23888674)
I'm sure Google out of all entities could handle scale.

That said, there might be a different threat to Google. GPT-3 seems really useful as a search engine of sorts (with the first answer implementing the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button). Tune it for a query syntax, and for getting the 'top X' results somehow, then we just need the web corpus and a basic filter over the results. We could have a very interesting Google competitor.