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Ask HN: If you use a bot/AI to write your article, do you need to disclose it?

1 points by mcadenhe ↗ HN
A recent HN discussion [1] about whether an article was written by a bot or not made me feel.. slightly deceived I guess? It wasn't proven to be a bot, but the accusation sowed a seed of doubt in my mind. It got me thinking about a deeper question: does it matter if a bot wrote it? Should we discount articles written by bots, and if so, on what basis?

I remember being hoodwinked by GPT-3 a few months ago [2] but the author disclosed the fact that he used AI to write it.

Something something Turing test. Curious to hear your thoughts.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24793546

2: https://maraoz.com/2020/07/18/openai-gpt3/

2 comments

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[dead] chovy
what's GPT-3? I keep seeing it.
[dead] magma17
'The weather today in [city] is [sunny/cloudy/rainy]' is not even an article, and it's irrelevant who wrote it.

A full-fledged article written by a bot is BS. And if it were true, the author is the bot, not you.