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My comment was mostly about the current trend. In just 4 years we went from GPT-2 to GPT-4, and the pace seems accelerating. Only a fool points to the limits of current technology to make claims about future technology, the less foolish look at trend lines. The even less foolish have causal models, but even in this case, ChatGPT’s user trendline is faster growing than Reddit’s. Though this tells you little about whether they’re substitutes.

>>D0TheM+(OP)
OK let me be simple

It will always be garbage

This is a hype road. There's nothing. There never will be anything.

It's just automated plagiarism.

The advantage of Reddit is genuinely new content which this method can't ever create.

>>chx+5p
>The advantage of Reddit is genuinely new content

you should tell that to reddtors. I believe they complain quite a bit about reposts, the same questions being asked, bots, and more.

>>johnny+js
Some != all

Stochastic parrot: inherently no new content

Reddit: some new content.

>>chx+aZ
I'm sure there's new content on Tumblr too, even if we'd veer the opposite way and say that "Tumblr has nothing", which is equally exaggeratory.

So, what's the line? How much noise are we welling to dig through to find "some new content"? I'd argue reddit has enough noise to at least bring the question up.