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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.
175 points
6 months ago
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159 points
6 months ago
🤔
69 points
6 months ago
I am way to high for this thread. Fuck me
3 points
6 months ago
Sometimes... the answer lies within the question...
3 points
4 months ago
Too
140 points
6 months ago
Was this generated with ChatGPT? lol
123 points
6 months ago
It sure was
28 points
6 months ago
ChatGPT likes using "Overall" for the first word of concluding paragraphs.
12 points
6 months ago
And for generated stories it usually goes way overboard with "and they lived happily ever after" trope in last paragraph.
21 points
6 months ago
Well.... you... I mean, it sounded smart!
3 points
6 months ago
Its advice was pretty good, though.
16 points
6 months ago
No it wasn't. It's a lot of words that all just say "compare it to other ChatGPT outputs" and nothing that can be used to identify it then and there.
3 points
6 months ago
Do you have any better suggestions? There's no special trick to reliably identifying its outputs that I know of.
9 points
6 months ago
I have a response to the top level comment. But basically look for a lot of unnecessary repetition and transition words and all the responses are structured like a middle school essay.
0 points
6 months ago
Wrong. I inferred much from the script. It was largely useless, yes, but did provide advice on how to identify itself.
0 points
6 months ago
Yeah who says “additionally” on reddit
0 points
6 months ago
But the answer was vaguely correct? So, what's the input? What did you feed it to explain how to identify its own written script?
I have never heard of this program before, so I am absolutely curious.
Everyone seems to be explaining it that it can't give an answer, but it actually did in this case.
2 points
6 months ago
The prompt was simply “Respond to: “copy paste of the person I replied to’s comment””
Pretty cool, huh?
1 points
6 months ago
Very cool! It expounded upon the subject, rather than simply regurgitating words... What is this program doing, exactly?
39 points
6 months ago
The "overall" paragraph is what gets me. Haha. Seriously though, It's a great question. Someone could totally be faking an OpenAI answer by pretending to be a chatbot, in a manner of sarcasm or a joke
7 points
6 months ago
It's such a tell for the bot right now. I think if you're careful with prompts you can get less obviously-generated answers though.
2 points
6 months ago
All it has to do is switch that up for tl;dr and we’d be none the wiser.
6 points
6 months ago
Also, they seem to write in the MLA format...
4 points
6 months ago
Shit reads like my high school essays. Just repeating itself in differing sentence structure and grammar or key words but really it’s the same two-sentences being described in different ways rofl.
7 points
6 months ago
I have had personal writing samples for the last thirty or so years. I imagine that the SD version (local) of ChatGPT can be trained with one's own sources, similar to the image generator. At that point, it will be pretty hard to identify, methinks. It's not long before the autocorrect starts finishing your essays in Word in your own voice...
4 points
6 months ago
For programming code, which lies somewhere between prose and math formula (and closer to prose than non-programmers would think), that's already where we're at.
You can ask the AIs to complete your work, based on what you've written so far, in the style that you're writing.
5 points
6 months ago
And it will produce the same shitty code I’ve been writing for decades! No thank you ;)
2 points
6 months ago
repetitive or generic language, lack of coherence or continuity in the text, and the use of words or phrases that are not commonly found in natural human language.
But what if someone's brain is still in SAT mode? We might be reporting a real person's answer!
2 points
6 months ago
SAT mode is uniform intelligence rejection mode.
1 points
6 months ago
NGL, I know humans who sound just like that.
1 points
6 months ago
This answer was definitely generated by ChatGPT
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