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Linked: A fake, AI-generated blog reached the top of Hacker News

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I’ve been seeing and hearing a lot about GPT-3 recently, and I’m convinced that it’s maybe not quite there, but awfully close, to being able to replicate what most of us do online and in social media.

I’ve been at this blog for almost 19 years. Are you sure it’s still me writing these posts? Did I disappear and just leave it on autopilot to write posts for me long after I’m gone?

Are you sure you would know if I did?

Not everything is as it appears. We could all use a lot more skepticism, especially on topics we are already biased to believe.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fake-ai-generated-gpt3-blog-hacker-news-2020-8

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