For a week, a bot based on OpenAI’s modern GPT-3 language model published posts on Reddit until it was exposed. Under the username / u / thegentlemetre he exchanged ideas with other participants of / r / AskReddit, a popular forum for general topics with 30 millions of members. He sent messages about once a minute if he was active.

Tricked – again This was not the first time that GPT-3’s works have been mistaken for real by humans. This August, a student posted a blog post that ranked # 1 on Hacker News and got him some subscribers.

GPT-3 has also produced several articles about the tool itself At the end of which, however, there was usually a reference written by humans. The current bot, on the other hand, acted like a normal human user and published hundreds of posts until it was recognized.

Detective work The many posts by the bot aroused Philip Winston’s suspicions, who describes in his blog how he exposed him. To do this, he checked whether the language of the suspicious posts was similar to the results of another tool based on GPT-3 called Philosopher AI.

This was programmed to answer questions that were not very serious like “If a tree falls over in the forest and nobody hears it, does quantum mechanics still stand for classical reality without an observer?” The developer