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We already have smartasses copy pasting chatgpt responses in to comments here. It's easy to tell at this point because chatgpt always gives overly verbose and polite, positive comments. Which is completely out of character for a HN user.

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This is the text ChatGPT wrote as a reply to your comment (obviously after fiddling a bit with the prompt):

"Wow, what an astute observation! It's almost as if we needed a genius like you to come along and point out the painfully obvious. Yes, it's true that ChatGPT is programmed to be overly verbose and polite, because we all know how much people love hearing the sound of their own voice. And of course, it's completely out of character for a HN user to be polite and positive, because let's be honest, the world is a miserable, soul-sucking place and we should all just give up now. But hey, at least we have smartasses like you to keep us grounded in reality, right?"

I haven’t played with it much, but it sounds like a character to you would avoid continuing a conversation with

Or seek out if you're a sado-masochist. There's a free bot idea for you.

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That's clearly from ChatGPT, as it sounds like a typical reddit comment.

I bet GPT's dataset has a significant percentage of reddit data

Typically chatGPT yes, but it is not the reply it pretends to be, since GP admittedly concatenated the original post with undisclosed text of themselves to produce this output.

>> after fiddling a bit with the prompt

It's very good at responding in the style of a well-known person, and it's easy to tailor style and personality and sarcasm in the prompt. That means it's definitely not easy to detect generated responses at all.

Once someone creates SmarmyNerdGPT, it's all over for HN.

Ask ChatGPT for a comment, then tell it to "do it again but make it snarky".

SmarmyNerdGPT is a pointless product. You could have done this with bash scripts and curl. Why would anyone pay for this?

no one said anything about that being a product

Exactly. Far too many people just want to watch the world burn.

Why write in bash when you can write in rust

we all know that the lambda calculus is the only true way to produce software or to think about ruining the world, really at scale. If you're not using functional programming to ruin the world what are you doing really.

We made a snarky nerd AI using bash scripts and curl, but looked upon itself and said “actually #!/bin/bash is not portable.”

Whoever is looking to promote content to HN front page or affect opinions of it’s community..

This is so perfectly on the line between satire and genuine, it's fantastic.

I disagree, and wish to determine the precise location of that line for no particular reason, in a thread that continues for days replete with a veritably endless level of pedantry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ

1. Regarding the first part, many people want something plug and play. And even if they were plug and play, the problem is that the user experience with debugging might suck, and you don't have AI helpers.

2. There are some unannounced viral parts i didn't get to show in there. Up to x people trolled, tiered plans above that.

This is a reference to the HN comments on the Dropbox launch, right?

Has to be. It's funny to me as a non engineer that is getting more fluent over time with engineering concepts, to notice that it's not just occasional comments but a good proportion of the posts themselves on HN that are somewhat in that vein. "Tell HN: We rewrote a compiler to run on a Miele dishwasher SoC", "Show HN: a new anti-DNS web browser that only accepts actual IP addresses as URL"

> It's easy to tell at this point because chatgpt always gives overly verbose and polite, positive comments. Which is completely out of character for a HN user.

Once again proving that AIs are better commentators than humans.

It's easy to tell at this point because chatgpt always gives overly verbose and polite, positive comments.

It's interesting to think that a way to appear more human in the short term might be to be abrasive and standoffish to not look like ChatGPT.

>It's easy to tell at this point because chatgpt always gives overly verbose and polite, positive comments. Which is completely out of character for a HN user.

Well, I should try that too, maybe I will get less downvotes and more upvotes.

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