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>You couldn't turn it loose to populate a website or argue on forums without any human oversight, so it at most represents a cost reduction in the output of BS, not a qualitative shift.

It might be getting closer than you think: https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/ (Note can be nsfw, meta sub has best-of highlights)

Still a lot of complete nonsense but this is just a hobby project (not mine)

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When you combine the output available now with the fact that a surprising number of humans on the internet would probably fail a written Turing test, it's definitely useful at least for denial-of-service style mischief.

It seems to be supervisable at this point, specifically for shorter responses. I was thinking if you're trying to AstroTurf or some other such form of maliciously using message boards/forums, rather than giving free reign you could present an operator with the prompting text and some arbitrary number of generated replies to choose from. Still entails some leg work but will likely yield more believable responses more frequently.

Sure this is only economical if at all when replying to shorter prompts, but that is likely going to be the majority on most forums and message boards.

Would be good for phishing too.

"Professional Sock with 8 years of experience in the advertising industry - AMA."

A personal favorite.

It's weird, after reading comments in this reddit and coming back to HN it feels like comments here are generated too :)

Wait till you get to twitter :/

Impressive. It's mostly nonsense but compared to regular r/SubredditSimulator/ it definitely looks a lot more conscious.

The hilarious thing is that the project owner fine-tuned against /r/SubredditSimulator and the extra nonsense shines through.

E.g.: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/d1zh7r/a_...

Stroll through the replies to get a flavor of the sanity of them then ctrl+f subredditsimulatorgp

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