Comment by greentxt

Comment by greentxt 2 days ago

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I think this person has too high a view of pre-2021, probably for ego reasons. In fact, their attitude seems very ego driven. AI didn't just occur in 2021. Nobody knows how much text was machine generated prior to 2021, it was much harder if not impossible to detect. If anything, it's probably easier now since people are all using the same ai that use words like delve so much much it becomes obvious.

croes 2 days ago

>AI didn't just occur in 2021. Nobody knows how much text was machine generated prior to 2021

But we do know that now it's a lot more, with a big LOT.

  • greentxt 2 days ago

    I assume you are correct but how can we know rather than assume? I am not sure we can, so why get worked up about "internet died in 2021" when many would claim with similar conviction that it's been dead since 2012, or 2007, or ...

    • ClassyJacket 2 days ago

      You are making a claim that somehow someone was sitting on something as powerful as ChatGPT, long before ChatGPT, and that it was in widespread use, secretly, without even a single leak by anyone at any point. That's not plausible.

      • nlpparty 2 days ago

        Twitter has been accused of being full of bots long before ChatGPT appeared. For 140 symbols, a template with synonyms would be enough to create mass-generated content.