Student GPT-3 fake blog posts pass as human
A US college student fooled people into believing fake blog posts generated by the GPT-3 large language model were written by a human, raising concerns about the ease with which GPT-3 could be misused to produce clickbait content and misinformation and disinformation. Using the account of a PhD student to bypass usage restrictions imposed by Open AI, University of California, Berkeley, student Liam Porr used GPT-3 to post a fake blog under a fake name. The first post - titled Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking - was ranked first on Hacker News . Porr told MIT Technology Review that only a handful of people seem to have noticed that his posts were AI-generated, but they were quickly downvoted by Hacker News community members. According to Porr, ' it was super easy, actually, which was the scary part.' System 🤖 GPT-3 large language model Operator: OpenAI; Liam Porr; Substack Developer: OpenAI Country: USA Sector: Multiple Purpose: Generate text Technology: Large language model (LLM); NLP/text analysis; Neural network; Deep learning; Machine learning Issue: Mis/disinformation; Ethics/values
- Date it happened
- 2020-08-01
- Organisation involved
- OpenAI; Liam Porr; Substack
- Product, system or model
- GPT-3
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