Comment by angryantant

Comment by angryantant 3 days ago

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The moderators have said that machine generated submissions and comments are not welcome on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628

card_zero 3 days ago

There was an old text generator program from the 80s called "Travesty":
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/50200-travesty
That's basically all ChatGPT is being used for here, so I think it's OK. It's not like a fake user, or "I ran the question through the chatbot and now I'll show you the output because I have no idea myself".

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- lampiaio 3 days ago
  
  Holy wow just yesterday I was toying with Travesty. I had no idea it existed back then and only found it recently when I went page by page through Macintosh Garden's whole database, so it's great to see someone mention it!
  
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  card_zero 3 days ago
  
  Source (or source of an earlier version at least), in BASIC:
  https://archive.org/details/BYTE_Vol_10-07_1985-07_Computers...
  I couldn't find the Nov 1984 Pascal version, but like they say, Basic is easier for working with strings.
  
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- CamperBob2 3 days ago
  
  That's basically all ChatGPT is being used for here, so I think it's OK.
  Don't bother arguing, it's a religious thing at this point.
  
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hammock 3 days ago

This is not a generated comment. It is a real person making a real comment, quoting a snippet of chat output

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card_zero 3 days ago

Ha, yes, a bitterly droll simile every third sentence, that was what was missing.