Humans vs AI
AI
ai copywriting experiment
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How HN took it
8 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Idea: 4 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, cool use of GPT-3 on live sites
From 3 comments
Really cool seeing GPT-3 in the wild. Very nice landing page.
dmos62 on HNVery cool use of the technology. Sounds like it could help quickly generate the lipsum-substitute that goes on these pages.
renewiltord on HNWhao, that's pretty cool ! I'm so curious of the results now ^^
C4stor on HN
Objections
Copy-paste or plagiarism risk from GPT-3 output
From 1 comment
For all the texts generated by GPT3, is anyone verifying that it's not just copy pasting paragraphs from previous seen texts? (like by, searching n-grams or even just googling…
mkagenius on HN
Concern GPT-3 will fuel SEO spam and misinformation
From 2 comments
I feel like GPT-3 is going to unleash the next wave of SEO spam. Content spinning will be taken to the next level, will Google be able to detect GPT-3 content?
tren on HNI 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…
xiphias2 on HN
Requests
Access to GPT-3 to try it
From 1 comment
I'd like to do that to. Any ideas on how to get access to it to play around?
air7 on HN
Questions
Whether the A/B test used retraining of the model
From 1 comment
This is a cool application. Did you have to retrain the model for this usecase? Sorry, I m not up to date if open ai has released model apart from API
mindhash on HN
Whether GPT-3 was trained on non-English data
From 1 comment
Was GPT-3 trained with data from other languages besides English?
haolez on HN
Alternatives named
Lorem ipsum placeholder text
From 1 comment
Very cool use of the technology. Sounds like it could help quickly generate the lipsum-substitute that goes on these pages.
renewiltord on HN
Wix and Webflow site builders
From 1 comment
It will work for this use case. In any case, most probably a human will select from a bunch of generated texts. Whether the texts are generated by a copywriter or GPT-3 will be…
nutanc on HN