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by anigbrowl 1291 days ago
Right now all of them sound like HAL 9000, but I'm sure if you asked it bone up on your comment history by messing with its prompt (goodside is the resident expert on this) it'd be able to pull off a passable facsimile - if not now, very soon.

Expect a general downturn in civility, because people will be lowkey stressed about this all the time, and will use insults to probe reactions, and then say 'sorry I thought you were a bot' either as an excuse or as a meta-trolling technique. Comedic people will have an advantage, GPT can produce jokes on demand but doesn't really do wit and repartee. Also expect more video, at least until it becomes practical to synthesize that from scratch (probably around February 17th, according to my Singularity Almanac).