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by kpozin 1194 days ago
The ChatGPT-generated section sounds exactly like the substance-free content farm articles you would find if you searched for "how to choose a laser printer".
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What really steams my clams are sites that wholesale lift reams of copy, minus introduction and summary, from Baeldung and others that do the good work, but pepper them with enough google bait so that they are ranked higher than the original. (I speculate that detecting and down-ranking this practice is not considered a priority by google because the copy-cats are riddled with ads so generate more revenue per organic result listing)

I find this collusion unethical. And should be illegal, but I hesitate to ask our lawmakers to understand the nuance when their lobby income stream relies on the opposite.

I’m really impressed at how ChatGPT perfectly nails exceedingly generic writing.
The cool part will be when ChatGPT-like systems Hoover all of the content generated by ChatGPT and use it for their training data. Which in turn will generate content that gets hoovered up by yet more systems.

At some point some of these models might be trained predominantly by the output of other machine learning models!

> At some point some of these models might be trained predominantly by the output of other machine learning models!

Just like people!