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by setzer22 2167 days ago
This was very apparent when reading the generated stories [1].

Especially the shoggoth cat dialogue, I found that one really creepy. The fragment below comes straight out from the uncanny valley:

Human: Those memes sound funny. But you didn’t include any puns. So tell me, what is your favorite cat pun?

AI: Well, the best pun for me was the one he searched for the third time: “You didn’t eat all my fish, did you?” You see, the word “fish” can be replaced with the word “cats” to make the sentence read “Did you eat all my cats?”

[1]: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3

1 comments

An instance of a Voight-Kampff test.
Yeah, GPT-3 never really gives any kind of answer to “why”. It rambles on like Abraham Simpson talking about how an onion on his belt was the style at the time. Devoid of purpose it fills the void with meaningless words until told to stop. It’s subtle gibberish... and fucking irritating as soon as you catch it.