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> I further predict that this will spark a creative gold rush among talented amateurs to train similar models and adapt them to a variety of purposes, including: mock news, “researched journalism”, advertising, politics, and propaganda.

The first mention of 'Elon Musk' (who left the board) and this sentence alone gave me the tip-off that GPT-3 had generated that (and the whole blog) and it's following prediction makes no sense.

Sure, it may be used for nefarious purposes, but no-one can train GPT-3 in any acceptable time except for those with access to large GPU/ASIC compute power (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, etc.) Without the model, it is not possible to adapt it to any other purpose, unless OpenAI does it for them. Without a detection mechanism, it is very dangerous.

Nice try and a great GPT-3 hype experiment, (mostly by friends of OpenAI). I look forward to the day that GPT-3 gets proper scrutiny from the actual wider tech industry before we can safely use it with detection methods.

parent rvz 6 years ago

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