The coming tsunami of fakery

Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by kerblang on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:37AM (#32595180)

This is ironic since the main article links to another (arguably more interesting) article that talks about achieving #1 posting status on HN with a GPT-3 posting:

https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-v...

Then again I could be replying to a bot

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by jjulius on Thursday August 25, 2022 @01:01PM (#32596603)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894742

This is hilarious.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by jallen_dot_dev on Thursday August 25, 2022 @05:56PM (#32600435)

Related: There's a GPT-3 bot on HN[1]. Somebody recently commented[2] that the bot was convincing, and a couple replies criticized them for calling it a bot (one citing ToS).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Traubenfuchs

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32518220

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by hombre_fatal on Thursday August 25, 2022 @06:14PM (#32600607)

Come on. That's a human LARPing as a bot. GPT-3 is good, but it doesn't write the comments you'll see on that account.

Even if you didn't know that, it should feel fishy when the "human" and the "bot" write with the same idiosyncrasies like nonstandard punctuation.

I just updated my profile. I'm a bot now, too.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by jallen_dot_dev on Thursday August 25, 2022 @06:27PM (#32600744)

Maybe. Doesn't change the silliness of people defending it without doing the least bit of investigation, which they would see by looking at the profile that the account claims to be a bot.

Edit: I replied before you edited your comment to point out the punctuation idiosyncrasies. Yeah I agree now, this guy must be LARPing as a bot.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by hombre_fatal on Thursday August 25, 2022 @06:33PM (#32600801)

I actually think @tinus_hn, who cited the rules in your link, is right: the rule should still apply because it adds nothing to the discussion to debate the bothood of a user even if they claim so themself.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by jallen_dot_dev on Thursday August 25, 2022 @06:37PM (#32600849)

I think the guidelines are to encourage civility and healthy discussion. That is, to not dismiss an argument by calling the person a bot. But if the person claims to be a bot, I don't see how it can be a community violation to call a bot a bot.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by hombre_fatal on Thursday August 25, 2022 @06:40PM (#32600892)

True, I don't think it made sense to invoke the guideline in that context since the guideline surely exists so that you aren't dismissing a comment based on who you think wrote it.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by Pr0ject217 on Friday August 26, 2022 @10:35AM (#32608068)

Ouch. I do agree, though.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by CamelCaseName on Thursday August 25, 2022 @12:55PM (#32596525)

Wow. I'm deeply frustrated with the author of that article.

> there were a few commenters on hacker news who also guessed [that GPT-3 wrote the articles]. Funny enough, nobody took notice because the community downvoted the comments.

What a quick way to destroy the social fabric of this site.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by hombre_fatal on Thursday August 25, 2022 @01:35PM (#32597114)

I think you’re barking up the wrong tree. This is inevitable because it won’t be long before the likes of GPT-3 (and everything better) is an app you can run on your phone.

The solution isn’t to punish the one person you can catch because they admitted it but rather to evolve the platform/assumptions in a world where this is going to happen no matter what.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by Pr0ject217 on Friday August 26, 2022 @10:21AM (#32607907)

Haha, I'm not a bot.

Edit: I'll shamefully admit that I impulsively posted a comment to share my love for HN without actually reading the article...

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