Like 5-10 years ago there was a “subreddit simulator” which would generate fake reddit posts generated from specific subreddits. It was almost entirely garbage, but that time the /r/askreddit simulator posted “Redditors of reddit, what’s the biggest mistake my mom makes in bed?” probably justified that whole endeavor. Such a perfect encapsulation of the content.
There have been a few over time. It originally started out as a project to test some new Reddit features with fake users, using Markov/GPT-2 bots, and then it became funny enough to let users see.
Okay, that’s hilarious. But I had to do a double-take when it dawned on me that AI has indeed been with us for nearly 5 years now…
I remember in 2021 there was all the buzz about “AI is already here, it’s just extremely flawed still and not even close to ready for use. The government needs to regulate it before some idiotic businessmen do something stupid with it.”
And then the attempted legislation got shot down because it would ostensibly “hamper innovation,” and then the first commercial LLMs hit the scene and then everybody lost their minds.
Like 5-10 years ago there was a “subreddit simulator” which would generate fake reddit posts generated from specific subreddits. It was almost entirely garbage, but that time the /r/askreddit simulator posted “Redditors of reddit, what’s the biggest mistake my mom makes in bed?” probably justified that whole endeavor. Such a perfect encapsulation of the content.
There have been a few over time. It originally started out as a project to test some new Reddit features with fake users, using Markov/GPT-2 bots, and then it became funny enough to let users see.
Them calling themselves bots or coincidentally being unable to tell cats and dogs apart was also quite funny back in the day. (They didn’t do any actual image recognition, it was just making links and a title.)
Okay, that’s hilarious. But I had to do a double-take when it dawned on me that AI has indeed been with us for nearly 5 years now…
I remember in 2021 there was all the buzz about “AI is already here, it’s just extremely flawed still and not even close to ready for use. The government needs to regulate it before some idiotic businessmen do something stupid with it.”
And then the attempted legislation got shot down because it would ostensibly “hamper innovation,” and then the first commercial LLMs hit the scene and then everybody lost their minds.