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Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” by yreg on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:36AM (#25207124)
Even worse, armies of GPT-3s probably wage massive flamewars against each other all over the internet in an attempt to sway public opinion.

It was always inevitable though.

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Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” by TeMPOraL on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @04:19AM (#25207355)
Yeah. And while GPT-3 output is often nonsensical, it's nonsensical in the same way a good fraction of the general public writes on the Internet. In this way, it's close to passing the Turing test - not because its good, but because real humans on generic platforms[0] are really that bad.

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[0] - By that I mean platforms that aren't strongly moderated for quality of discussions, or that don't focus on niches for which the set of people interested in them already has a higher than average discourse quality.

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Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42” by SurfingToad on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:52AM (#25211257)
Locke versus Demosthenes ...
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