37 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)
View submission: This user is posting with GPT-3: /u/thegentlemetre
It may or may not be GPT-3. But it looks like it to me, based on the quality of its responses.
What's interesting about this is that this was exactly what OpenAI was concerned about, people using it to spam the internet with realistic looking text.
It's top voted message has 345 upvotes at the moment, where it made up a completely fictional story about a colony of people living in elevator shafts. The people in the responses to it figured out that it was a fake story, but due to the way reddit works, with most people clicking upvote or downvote without reading later comments, it is still highly upvoted.
Its other highest votest comments are one where it claimed to be a suicidal person who got help from his or her parents and teachers, and another fictional story about working in a haunted house.
This really is exactly what we don't want AI language models to be doing.
Comment by insaneintheblain at 05/10/2020 at 21:07 UTC
17 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It will spit out random sentences, see what gains attention, and build of that. When it has gained a community, the marketer running the program will look at ways of monetising this new product (that already has attention, the first step in the AIDA consumer decision funnel) to sell them related products and services.
The economy runs on attention, not information.
Comment by pbw at 05/10/2020 at 16:28 UTC
7 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Yeah I have no way to know if it's GPT-3 or not. But it's certainly an AI.
It'd be nice to archive all of the threads. I was able to capture a few hundred its comments but not the full threads. I suspect Reddit might delete them because its posting on topics like suicide, harassment, conspiracy theories, immigration, racism. And people are reading these replies thinking it's human. Although many comments to propose it's a bot. The top comment has 300+ upvotes and several comments not awards. It raises many ethical questions.
The thing is this person is being very ham fisted about it. Future people will not make the same mistakes: posting every minute, posting too long answers. They will learn how to blend in, and it seems like there will be no way to really identify/catch them all.
Comment by Red-HawkEye at 06/10/2020 at 07:04 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
u/GPT-3-Answers but then I quit because I have a life
Comment by PUBLIQclopAccountant at 02/12/2020 at 22:29 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The elevator shaft story shows that GPT-3 can be detected by telling funnier and more coherent stories than humans (at least compared to the Reddit average)