Re:Writing for Snobs
by keenmaster on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:10PM
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To rephrase: it will humiliate people who consume non-intellectually interesting material but don't really think about what they're doing. E.g. Someone whose daily reading consists of the top articles on Yahoo News. I don't think they'll continue to do so if Yahoo and its partners switch to GPT-X. So either Yahoo will source better material, or its readership will decline.
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Re:Writing for Snobs
by NortySpock on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:38PM
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In GPT's current iteration, I agree.
If GPT produces better output and is carefully mixed in with existing stories, I don't think anyone will notice.
What percentage of stock price stories are generated by a bot? Off the cuff and totally guessing, I'd say 50%. Do you know the exact number? Could you tell? Would the headline service tell you? (probably not)
Re:Writing for Snobs
by keenmaster on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @06:12PM
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Ethos matters, especially when there's money involved and you're taking advice from someone. You'd be disturbed if that someone is a bot. Maybe you shouldn't be, because sometimes financial advisors are worse than bots, but people don't know that.
As for the stories that merely describe stock movements without any real analysis, I myself would read those. I'm completely fine with that as long as there's reliable QA on the output.