Humans vs AI

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ai copywriting experiment

SHOW HN2020

100points
78comments
#648of 3,028 in 2020
Top 22%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

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 HN
    • Very cool use of the technology. Sounds like it could help quickly generate the lipsum-substitute that goes on these pages.
      renewiltord on HN
    • Whao, 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 HN
    • 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…
      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

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