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by motohagiography 1974 days ago
Funny, though I am unshocked that they have figured out a way to automatically generate cant.

What does make it interesting is if it were applied as a GPT-2/3 module, and let loose as a reddit comment bot to train a model for engagement and provocation. Editors are essentially model supervisors, and if the object is to provoke and flatter people to sell advertising, it seems more like a compute problem to distill this process into a business.

Human writers creating organic content aren't really necessary for that, and very soon we should be able to generate content and then attribute it to loyal personalities that we stand up as minor celebrities, not unlike the old Hollywood studio system from the early 20th century, where talent was well kept, but still very much kept.