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by galleywest200 1176 days ago
With the new ChatGPT Plugins, it seems they may actually be able to make POST requests to social media APIs soon. It is likely that an LLM could have "I should post a tweet about this" in its training data.

Granted... currently it is likely humans that have written the code that the new Plugins are allowed to call -- but they have given ChatGPT the ability to execute rudimentary Python scrips and even ffmpeg so I think it is only a matter of time before one outputs a Tweet written by its own code.
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danaris 1176 days ago
> It is likely that an LLM could have "I should post a tweet about this" in its training data.

That only matters if a human has explicitly hooked it up so that when ChatGPT encounters that set of tokens, it executes the "post to Twitter" scripts.

ChatGPT doesn't comprehend the text it's producing, so without humans making specific links between particular bundles of text and the relevant plugin scripts, it will never "decide" to use them.

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aiphex 1176 days ago
At a high level, all that would have to happen is a person gives GPT, or something like it, access to a social media page and tells it to post to it with the objective of getting the highest level of interaction and followers.
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danaris 1175 days ago
...which in no way grants GPT sapience, nor would it prove that it has it.

The human is still providing the capability to post, the timing script to trigger posting, and the specific heuristic to be used in determining how to choose what to post.

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