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Re:Show HN: A full game of snake encoded in a url by lbatchelor on Saturday January 07, 2023 @06:46PM (#34294341)
Wow, that's actually impressive. Any idea how chat gpt would know that? Surely it's not making the request for it and surely it's not actually decoding any base64 right?
Re:Show HN: A full game of snake encoded in a url by realYitzi on Saturday January 07, 2023 @07:14PM (#34294561)
I can venture a guess, but gonna wait until I know what I'm talking about.

Over here it decodes a js animated SVG https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8rcjhgg/ but made a few slight mistakes.

Re:Show HN: A full game of snake encoded in a url by londons_explore on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:13AM (#34310513)
You'd be right a good chunk of the time if you said it was a snake game just by seeing that it was a data URL and had the word 'canvas' in.
Re:Show HN: A full game of snake encoded in a url by UweSchmidt on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:59AM (#34311038)
ChatGPT has probably seen plenty of half-baked excercise/homework snake implementations on Github to tell that this is another one of those.

(Yes, this is moving the goalposts and implying that true AI is just over the horizon...)

Re:Show HN: A full game of snake encoded in a url by kevinwang on Monday January 09, 2023 @12:48PM (#34313279)
I recall seeing that it's actually quite fluent in base64