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Re:Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 langu... by defen on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @06:04PM (#24560509)
Well, hopefully we can at least get some cool games out of it. Canned NPC dialog is one of the biggest immersion breakers in open-world games / RPGs.

On the topic of societal impact of GPT-3 (and subsequent models) - structurally, how will people's use of the Internet change once it becomes common knowledge that nearly anything could have been written by a bot? On the one hand, I find the notion of competing trollbots screaming at each other into infinity to be rather amusing, but on the other hand I'm not keen to return to a world where I can only be sure I'm communicating with a person if I know them in real life.

Re:Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 langu... by 1MoreThing on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @02:13PM (#24570100)
Maybe bylines will become important again.

Also, wasn't this a plot point in Neil Stephenson's "Anathem"?