Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”
by alisonkisk on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:33AM
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That's because almost every short phrase of commmon words or structure has been written before. There aren't very many that we recognize as grammatical and valid diction. That's what grammar and diction is.
Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”
by OJFord on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:32AM
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I'm not sure what you're point is? Both the other commenter and I felt that it was familiar to us, and the combination of that and that it's a rather unusual phrase made it stand out.
We're not sitting around going 'gosh it's like I've read your comment before' because everything you wrote is unoriginal.
Re:I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”
by OJFord on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @02:28PM
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your* (missed edit)
While I'm at it I'll add in case it's why my comment is so objected to that I'm not religious; that just doesn't preclude me from knowing or remembering bits and pieces, and recognising (or thinking I recognise) a phrase.
> Isn't that a quote from a book?
The good book isn't it? I can't say for sure or say who or when, but it seemed familiar to me too; I think it's biblical, but I'm pretty far from an authority on it.
(Specifically that part of the sentence/the structure I mean, not that the whole thing is plagiarised.)