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Comment by xiphias2 | Hacker News Reader

I wouldn't be surprised if the result of the next election in a country would be decided by a Transformer based deep neural network.

The dictator in my country is already paying stupid people to write stupid comments, GPT-3 is already over their level.

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It's scary how this can be interpreted as multiple countries.

cf "Franchise", Isaac Asimov, 1955: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)

Going beyond the election process itself, one might hope an electorate would use "utterances must be distinguishable from GPT-3 output" as a litmus test for their candidates.

Maybe a future debate format should include not only human candidates but a few instances of GPT-3 as well?

I’m almost certain I will soon stop using social media altogether. I’ve been considering it for years due to increasing prevalence of bots but gpt3 will push it over the line.

At some point you don't even need to manipulate comments on news articles, you can just make GPT-3 rewrite the news-articles to fit your narrative.

Can anyone ask GPT-3 who will be the next president?

Joe Biden commented on the election that he is disappointed in the outcome, but hopes that president-elect Trump can do some good for the country.

Though with another some context and different priming I guess I'd get a different answer.

May I ask you which country you are talking about?

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