We take the web for granted, but maybe we shouldn’t. It’s very large and nobody can read it all. There are many places we haven’t been that probably have some pretty good writing. I wonder about the extent to which GPT-3 can be considered a remix of the web that makes it seem magical again, revealing aspects of it that we don’t normally see? When I see writing like this, I wonder what GPT-3 saw in the web corpus. Is there an archive of Tolkien fanfic that was included in the corpus? An undergrad physics forum? Conversations about math and computer science?
I wonder about the extent to which GPT-3 can be considered a remix of the web that makes it seem magical again, revealing aspects of it that we don’t normally see?
Such as a darknet marketplace where animals can trade valuable resources for electricity? :D
But yeah, I agree, if there are places debating a topic that resembles the prompt, GPT-3 could be good at including them in the debate. So maybe if the result is too good, it makes sense to check parts of it by a search engine.
Maybe it would even make sense to use GPT-3 purposefully to search for something on the internet. Like, if you have a vague suspicion that something could exist, but you don’t know the right keywords to type into the search engine, maybe you could just describe the thing, and hope that GPT-3 finds the right words and tells you something that you can search later. Not sure if this actually would work.
There is (going to be) a search engine involving GPT-3, according to twitter, though it’s GPT-3 helping you find things instead of someone finding GPT-3′s sources.
I’m suggesting something a little more complex than copying. GPT-3 can give you a random remix of several different clichés found on the Internet, and the patchwork isn’t necessarily at the surface level where it would come up in a search. Readers can be inspired by evocative nonsense. A new form of randomness can be part of a creative process. It’s a generate-and-test algorithm where the user does some of the testing. Or, alternately, an exploration of Internet-adjacent story-space.
It’s an unreliable narrator and I suspect it will be an unreliable search engine, but yeah, that too.
We take the web for granted, but maybe we shouldn’t. It’s very large and nobody can read it all. There are many places we haven’t been that probably have some pretty good writing. I wonder about the extent to which GPT-3 can be considered a remix of the web that makes it seem magical again, revealing aspects of it that we don’t normally see? When I see writing like this, I wonder what GPT-3 saw in the web corpus. Is there an archive of Tolkien fanfic that was included in the corpus? An undergrad physics forum? Conversations about math and computer science?
Such as a darknet marketplace where animals can trade valuable resources for electricity? :D
But yeah, I agree, if there are places debating a topic that resembles the prompt, GPT-3 could be good at including them in the debate. So maybe if the result is too good, it makes sense to check parts of it by a search engine.
Maybe it would even make sense to use GPT-3 purposefully to search for something on the internet. Like, if you have a vague suspicion that something could exist, but you don’t know the right keywords to type into the search engine, maybe you could just describe the thing, and hope that GPT-3 finds the right words and tells you something that you can search later. Not sure if this actually would work.
There is (going to be) a search engine involving GPT-3, according to twitter, though it’s GPT-3 helping you find things instead of someone finding GPT-3′s sources.
I’m suggesting something a little more complex than copying. GPT-3 can give you a random remix of several different clichés found on the Internet, and the patchwork isn’t necessarily at the surface level where it would come up in a search. Readers can be inspired by evocative nonsense. A new form of randomness can be part of a creative process. It’s a generate-and-test algorithm where the user does some of the testing. Or, alternately, an exploration of Internet-adjacent story-space.
It’s an unreliable narrator and I suspect it will be an unreliable search engine, but yeah, that too.