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1. dang+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-08-17 17:34:33
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165171
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2. shawnz+82[view] [source] 2020-08-17 17:43:06
>>dang+(OP)
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.
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3. dang+bc[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-08-17 18:34:06
>>shawnz+82
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.
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