If Only Turing Was Alive To See This

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Jun 20, 2019 136 words Read

Scott Alexander humorously describes AI-generated content simulating humans pretending to be robots pretending to be humans on Reddit.

humor 48 internet culture 34 GPT-2 6 Reddit 5 Turing test 4 AI language models 3 simulation 2
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There’s a silly subreddit called r/totallynotrobots where people pretend to be badly-disguised robots. They post cat pictures with captions like “SINCE I AM A HUMAN, THIS SMALL FELINE GENERATES POSITIVE EMOTIONS IN MY CARBON-BASED BRAIN” or something like that.

There’s another subreddit called r/SubSimulatorGPT2, that trains GPT-2 on various subreddits to create imitations of their output.

Now r/SubSimulatorGPT2 has gotten to r/totallynotrobots, which means we get to see a robot pretending to be a human pretending to be a robot pretending to be a human.

Here is a sample:

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