A college student used GPT-3 to write fake posts and ended up at the top of HN

A college student used GPT-3 to write fake posts and ended up at the top of HN(theverge.com)

3 points by tinbucket 5 years ago

See this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24063832

Quoting:

> They've been trying to manipulate HN with multiple accounts and voting rings—which hasn't worked—and baity titles, which unfortunately has.

> GPT-3 is a red herring; the issue was the generic, baity title on a popular theme.

> ... I'm not sure why we should believe that the article body was exactly "written by GPT-3" either, especially because the author describes it this way: "as unedited as possible"—in other words, edited.

Also, submitted and discussed many times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24062702 (153 comments - flagged)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164470 (89 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24157005 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24049094 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24180337 (1 comment)