[wegi]

There is a case to be made for being fast "online" with a new breakthrough technology. So they just made their bet as any startup bets on a central thesis.

And its not like GPT-3 is useless. It is perfect for immitating texts written by other entities.

[Cthulhu_]

Cynically, it'll probably end up being used to generate content for websites and online marketing.

[sebmellen]

It already is, and I regret to admit I've used it.

Check out https://copysmith.ai or https://shortlyread.com.

[danielscrubs]

I wonder if English will be the first to become a low trusted language as most AI research is done on the English language. “Is it in english? Probably written by a bot.” might be a common thought in ten years. Ofc eventually the big languages will catch up in marketing spam.

[duck2]

If this future happens, people might "fall back" to their native languages for internet writing. I'm already thinking about this: if I wrote something which could potentially get me in legal trouble, like a reverse engineering post, I would probably write it in my native language. Kind of similar to torrent trackers in Russian or obscure phone mod forums in Portuguese.

[patrickk]

Are the results any good? Can it really generate quality copy? How is it for research on any given topic?

[yreg]

Even worse, armies of GPT-3s probably wage massive flamewars against each other all over the internet in an attempt to sway public opinion.

It was always inevitable though.

[TeMPOraL]

Yeah. And while GPT-3 output is often nonsensical, it's nonsensical in the same way a good fraction of the general public writes on the Internet. In this way, it's close to passing the Turing test - not because its good, but because real humans on generic platforms[0] are really that bad.

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[0] - By that I mean platforms that aren't strongly moderated for quality of discussions, or that don't focus on niches for which the set of people interested in them already has a higher than average discourse quality.

[SurfingToad]

Locke versus Demosthenes ...