Am I missing something? The article seems to suggest it works via hidden text characters. Has OpenAI never heard of pasting text into a utf8 notepad before?

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    4 months ago

    no. i bet it uses an algorithm setting optional words to specific variants over a given set of text.

    but it sounds to me like they are figuring out how to monetize the cure for their disease

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      4 months ago

      Which, if ChatGPT has or is getting parity with human writers then, by definition, it’s going to be impossible to tell the difference.

      And if it can tell the difference it’s either going to prove their product is substandard, they can identify snippets of copyrighted material they have in their training set, or falsely identify people whose content and styles their training on.

      I’m not sure what the angel here is for OpenAI but it’s problematic to their brand and, potentially, legally no matter how they go about it.

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        No that isnt the case, you could train up a machine to detect if a passage of text was written by Hemmingway (for example) and likely get decent accuracy, that doesnt mean Hemmingway is substandard, just that he has a noticable style (like GPT’s default style). Its likely bullshit for other reasons, but it doesnt imply what you say it does.