Hit article about productivity on Hacker News. Users did not realize that an algorithm wrote it
Do you feel unproductive? Stop thinking so much – this was the title of an article that appeared on Hacker News last month . The post was received very positively by the readers, received almost 200 likes and 71 comments. Any author would be pleased with the response of his community. The readers, however, did not know one thing: the entire article was generated by artificial intelligence. A post written by an algorithm in the 1st position of the most popular articles on the Hacker News portal How to write a good article? Liam Porr, a student at the University of California at Berkeley, over the course of a month created a series of posts "written" by GPT-3, a content generation tool. Porr’s only input was to write the headline. On its basis, the algorithm generated the entire post, which Porr in turn posted on forums such as Hacker News. In an interview with MIT Technology Review, Porr admitted that he purposely instructed the algorithm to write a productivity artic...