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Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:44AM (#33105185)
> Because GPT-3 has trained on so much spam, it knows what spam looks like. It just needs a couple of examples, and off it goes.

it's seen so much spam it only needs a few examples of spam to work?

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Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by johnmorrison on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:20AM (#33106240)
No, he's not contradicting himself.

He's saying: it has seen so much spam (without it necessarily having been labeled as such) already, that it only needs to see a couple examples labeled as spam in order to recognize the pattern in all of the spam it has seen before.

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Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Thursday October 06, 2022 @09:01AM (#33107674)
oh, gotcha.
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