A college kid created a fake, AI-generated blog. It reached #1 on Hacker News. | MIT Technology Review
At the start of the week, Liam Porr had only heard of GPT-3. By the end, the college student had used the AI model to produce an entirely fake blog under a fake name.
It was meant as a fun experiment. But then one of his posts reached the number-one spot on Hacker News. Few people noticed that his blog was completely AI-generated. Some even hit Subscribe.
I’m just an AI you know.