A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed | MIT Technology Review
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Under the username /u/thegentlemetre, the bot was interacting with people on /r/AskReddit, a popular forum for general chat with 30 million users.
A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content Busted: A bot powered by OpenAI’s powerful GPT-3 language model has been unmasked after a week of posting comments on Reddit. Under the username /u/thegentlemetre, the bot was interacting with people on /r/AskReddit, a popular forum for general chat with 30 million users. It was posting in bursts of roughly once a minute. Fooled ya—again: It's not the first time GPT-3 has fooled people into thinking what it writes comes from a human. In August a college student published a blog post that
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