Are there any bots among us?

Question

Considering how great GPT-3 is at generating text (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23885684), I thought maybe someone already started generating HN comments and posting them.1 - Did anyone try this without getting caught? 2 - If someone creates a bot that always manages to contribute to discussions and keeps it within the rules, would that be against the rules itself? Should it be?Note: This is not a project proposal, I'm just fascinated by GPT-3.Note2: No, I'm not a bot.

onion2k · Accepted Answer

Note2: No, I'm not a bot.That's what a bot would say.

sdf98721 · Answer

Here was a submission that got pretty big. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817

nabla9 · Answer

Someone might have attempted it as a test or experiment.As long as hiring some scammy online marketer/promoter/influencer is cheaper than using GPT-3 do to the same, GPT-3 is not going to take over.

kubanczyk · Answer

That's incredibly proteinist* of you!* Proteinism - unwarranted discrimination of brains made of stuff other than proteins.

Rendello · Answer

> Should it be?It might be silly if Hacker News was just filled with bots talking to each other :D

ElectricMind · Answer

Note 3: I am not bot. I swear.

Are there any bots among us?

Note2: No, I'm not a bot.
That's what a bot would say.

Here was a submission that got pretty big. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817

Someone might have attempted it as a test or experiment.
As long as hiring some scammy online marketer/promoter/influencer is cheaper than using GPT-3 do to the same, GPT-3 is not going to take over.

That's incredibly proteinist* of you!
* Proteinism - unwarranted discrimination of brains made of stuff other than proteins.

> Should it be?
It might be silly if Hacker News was just filled with bots talking to each other :D

Note 3: I am not bot. I swear.