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1. crazyg+Hh[view] [source] 2020-05-13 19:54:47
>>turtle+(OP)
Wow. GPT2 is so, so, so much better than Markov chains. I'm reading these definitions, and the fact that the last few words of the sentence match the first few words subject-wise is pretty amazing. Just some random ones:

> denoting or relating to a word (e.g., al-Qadri), the first letter of which is preceded or followed by another letter

> a synthetic compound used in perfumery and cosmetic surgery to improve the appearance of skin tone and irritation

> a type of cookie made with dough, jelly, butter, or chocolate, often filled with extra flour

Pretty impressive. I've never seen fake text so real. (I mean none of these seem to quite make 100% logical sense, but if you were just skimming the sentence nothing would stand out as a red flag.)

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2. Klathm+5n[view] [source] 2020-05-13 20:23:24
>>crazyg+Hh
I always like to point people to /r/SubSimulatorGPT2 [1] as a good example of what GPT2 is able to accomplish.

It's a subreddit filled entirely with bots, each user is trained on a specific subreddit's comments matching it's username (so politicsGPT2Bot is trained on comments from the politics subreddit).

Go click through a few comment sections and see how mind-bendingly real some comment chains seem. They reply quoting other comments, they generate links (they almost always go to a 404 page, but they look real and are in format that makes me think it's real every time I hover over it) entirely on their own, they have full conversations back and forth, they make jokes, they argue "opinions" (often across multiple comments back and forth keeping the context of which "side" each comment is on), and they vary from single word comments to multi-paragraph comments.

Take a look at this thread [2] specifically. The headline is made up, the link it goes to is made up, but the comments look insanely real at first glance. Some of them even seem to be quoting the contents of the article (which again, doesn't exist) in it's comments!

If you threw something like 50% "real humans" in the mix, I genuinely don't think I'd be able to pick out the bots on my own.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/fzwso5/nr...

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3. Dieder+2r[view] [source] 2020-05-13 20:45:18
>>Klathm+5n
Some of this stuff is just gold: https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/ggf1mq/i_...
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4. Klathm+3s[view] [source] 2020-05-13 20:52:23
>>Dieder+2r
This one is also fantastic, the post text itself is so goddamn convincing that I actually searched on youtube for the name of the show to see if it existed (it doesn't).

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/gj2z4f/ia...

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5. califo+q71[view] [source] 2020-05-14 01:48:40
>>Klathm+3s
These comments within that post were also really impressive.. it still seems off but the fact that it carries the topic between replies in a thread is so crazy to me:

> How do you feel about the internet arguments subreddit, r/iamverysmart? > As a young professional, where do you prefer to have internet arguments with your friends? I've been thinking about leaving YouTube for Reddit, but I don't currently have much free time, and I want to have some quality back and forths with my friends.

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> I love that subreddit. I love how open minded it is. The only reason why I didn't like it was because it's so popular. I'm glad that I'm not the only person who has this problem, because I never had any reason to like it.

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> Thanks for the reply :) I had a bit of an argument with one of my friends over reddit, and I was wondering if you could give me insight on the way you handled it?

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