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Re:GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News by happytoexplain on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:32PM (#24164854)
Exactly. I can't tell if that poster actually suspects the content was generated, or if they are simply using the comparison as an insult.
Re:GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News by bawolff on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:01PM (#24165039)
As a criticism, i don't see how that matters. An article written by a human at the quality level of gpt-3 has the same value as an article actually written by gpt-3. Knowing that gpt-3 actually wrote the article doesn't change its level vapidity. Either the article is vapid or it isn't.
Re:GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News by Wowfunhappy on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:14PM (#24165098)
But there's no need to accuse the author of being a robot. They could have written:

> This article is vapid. Zero substantive content, pure regurgitation

Now, I would still have downvoted such a comment. If I'm reading a thread, I clearly like at least the article's topic, and I want to read more on that topic, not dismissive comments telling me that it's stupid. But, at least the modified version focuses on the content, rather than the author.