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Re:College student uses GPT-3 to write fake blogs and ends u... by ColinWright on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:50AM (#24351593)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165040

... wherein dang points out that "... the story is bogus and based on false claims."

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24063832

Added in edit after the first reply to this ...

Also quoting dang:

"They've been trying to manipulate HN with multiple accounts and voting rings—which hasn't worked—and baity titles, which unfortunately has."

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Re:College student uses GPT-3 to write fake blogs and ends u... by 0-_-0 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @07:01AM (#24351987)
Those seem like small technicalities. GPT-3 needs a prompt to write something so a few sentences have to be written by a human. Also, whether 1 or 2 people pointed out that it could be GPT-3 is not a substantative difference. The screenshot shows a greyed out comment which means it was downvoted. Even assuming the screenshot is faked, those comments are still toward the bottom of the thread so weren't ones that many people agreed with. Overall, HN was gamed and I hope this will make people think more about the quality of content they upvote here. [This comment was generated by GPT-3] [just kidding]
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