[ExI] A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 17:28:12 UTC 2020


Under the username /u/thegentlemetre, the bot was interacting with
people on /r/AskReddit, a popular forum for general chat with 30
million users.

by Will Douglas Heaven    October 8, 2020

<https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/08/1009845/a-gpt-3-bot-posted-comments-on-reddit-for-a-week-and-no-one-noticed/>

It was posting in bursts of roughly once a minute.
(Which gave the game away eventually).

BillK


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