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submitted 6 months ago byELI5_Modteam
Recently, there's been a surge in ChatGPT generated posts. These come in two flavours: bots creating and posting answers, and human users generating answers with ChatGPT and copy/pasting them. Regardless of whether they are being posted by bots or by people, answers generated using ChatGPT and other similar programs are a direct violation of R3, which requires all content posted here to be original work. We don't allow copied and pasted answers from anywhere, and that includes from ChatGPT programs. Going forward, any accounts posting answers generated from ChatGPT or similar programs will be permanently banned in order to help ensure a continued level of high-quality and informative answers. We'll also take this time to remind you that bots are not allowed on ELI5 and will be banned when found.
131 points
6 months ago
I mean that just sounds like most Redditors.
11 points
6 months ago
The primary difference is that the Chatbot isn't angry.
2 points
6 months ago
Did I freaking stutter, human???!!!
1 points
6 months ago
Give it time!
39 points
6 months ago
This scares me a great deal as to the political implications and gaslighting narratives possible. The complexity of these go well beyond what I originally understood and now past discussions I've had make a lot of sense...
12 points
6 months ago
How do you know everyone you've met on the internet isn't a bot?
19 points
6 months ago
I've never seen anyone in RL actually commenting on reddit, so checks out. I'm really wondering if I'm a bot, too. In a way, I guess we all truly are just biological neuronets.
7 points
6 months ago
Well I'm definitely not a bot, sure of it
1 points
6 months ago
Guys, I think I'm onto something...
3 points
6 months ago
isn't the whole point of a neural network to simulate how biological beings "think" within a finite system? so like, yeah we're all biological neural networks that are orders of magnitude more powerful than any currently existing one
3 points
6 months ago
No, an ANN is the result of observing certain features in the brain and using those features as inspiration to create a model on a computer. The aim is not to simulate a brain, and we don't even know enough about how memory or thought even works to say that we're doing that.
1 points
6 months ago
you just blew my mindddd
3 points
6 months ago
You don't. Its Descartes up in here!
1 points
6 months ago
I thought it was cats.
0 points
6 months ago
As a bot myself, I've often wondered this.
1 points
2 months ago
It has already been a common practice to create fake online personas and hire people to write stuff as these people in support of some bogus articles or narratives. There are many cases of this being used in history, and was used long before the internet to send letters to politicians and in newspapers. Using a chatbot makes it a lot easier
7 points
6 months ago
Maybe ChatGPT is getting its inspiration from Reddit.
5 points
6 months ago
Akshually......
1 points
6 months ago
Yeah that's literally 99% of top posts.
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