Re:GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News
by cs702 on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:04PM
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The longer the comment, the easier to detect GPT-3. The more rigorous the subject, the easier to detect GPT-3. But GPT-3's presence is harder to detect for short comments on less rigorous subjects generated using as input context actual headlines and top-voted comments on HN.
The example comments you linked (Where GPT-3's presence was disclosed) were believably human, particularly if you were skimming, but they were not good comments. If not for the note at the end about GPT-3, I'm pretty confident they would have been downvoted.
And if I'm wrong, and GPT-3 is actually capable of writing thoughtful and substantive comments... well, in the words of XKCD, "mission fucking accomplished."