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All the blogs posted by e.g. this user [0] were generated by GPT-3. [1] Some of those reached the top of HN.

That comment indeed looks a lot like it is generated. It has correlated a bunch of words, but it did not understand that the link between UI and AI is tenuous. It is probably one of the few comments where it is so glaringly obvious. There are likely a lot more comments around which are generated but which went unnoticed.

This comment is not generated, as the links below are dated after the GPT-3 dataset was scraped.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adolos

[1] https://adolos.substack.com/p/what-i-would-do-with-gpt-3-if-...

>>317070+(OP)
Isn't gpt3-generated prose always seeded by some words or sentences? I'm curious what the poster used as seed, and why/if they chose to focus on UI?

Would it be possible to use gpt3 to "beautify" existing prose without changing its meaning? Now that would be useful!

>>317070+(OP)
Incredible. People in those threads are accusing the "author" of being GPT-3, and other commenters are chastising them for being so disrespectful as to suggest such a thing.

>>ameliu+Qb
The prompt design likely has as input the HN title, and potentially some other metadata, but not necessarily the first few words of the comment.

>>shawnz+Ql
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165171

>>317070+(OP)
That story is bogus. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165040 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24063832.

In a way the real story is that people are so eager to believe it that it didn't matter that it was untrue. Like Voltaire's God, if it didn't exist it was necessary to invent it.

>>dang+O91
To be clear, I'm not saying that person was wrong to criticize the other post necessarily. I just think it's a testament to the abilities of GPT-3 that it could fool a reasonable person.

>>shawnz+Wb1
That would be true if it had actually happened, but it didn't. What happened is that someone faked it to exploit people's desire for such a thing to happen, and then used the claim to get a lot of attention, including getting some journalists to write about it—whether because they actually believed it, or simply because it was such an attention-getter.