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Comment by tylerscott | Hacker News Reader

Is it me or does this article seem “off”. The verbatim repetition of the thesis multiple times makes me think this wasn’t written by a person.

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The same author just published an article on a new open source language model that supposedly outperforms GPT-3[1]. Very curious.

[1] https://therationalist.substack.com/p/glm-130b-an-open-bilin...

Haven't bothered to read it. GPT detector says it is 99% fake. https://openai-openai-detector.hf.space/

Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I pasted the article text into the site you linked and it said 99.98% real.

I've used two paragraphs from the middle of the article.

Ignoring for the moment the accuracy of that tool, even if the prose is 99% AI written, that doesn't meant that the result is fake. Maybe their model wrote it.

Edit: You can try it here https://huggingface.co/spaces/THUDM/GLM-130B. I tried it. I was not impressed.

100% had this thought because of the repetition. It generally just feels like it makes the same point three times without adding anything new in any of them.

Hi! I am the person that wrote this, and used GPT-3 and a few other writing tools to help me wordsmith it. All the points, however, is original work and not AI generated. I am not a native English speaker, so I have been using these tools to avoid awkward sentences/paragraphs. (Clearly this has not been the outcome I was hoping for)

Good eye, their only other article is equally suspicious in prose and especially content:

https://therationalist.substack.com/p/glm-130b-an-open-bilin...

You're right. I came to this HN thread from Twitter https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1611758284175966209

I was thinking the same thing. The repetition of the variations of the phrase "the creator economy...upper echelon of..." are painfully redundant.

The stock image in the beginning doesn't exactly help - it definitely looks AI produced.

The style is reminiscent of an eighth grade essay. The thesis is as trite and obvious as they come.

For bonus points, the writer cites sources without linking to them, including Forbes—the worst pay-to-play publication out there.

Citing without linking is something I've seen ChatGPT do. It knows this sort of article should contain this sort of citation but doesn't know or care what to actually link.

The second half of the article seems more authentic though. I'm not sure ChatGPT would come up with "the middle class comes from economic friction" (paraphrasing).

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