A Twitter thread weaving a story about racism in science got 44,000 likes. After people noticed incongruencies in the story, the author acknowledged to me he had copied from reddit. Then he deleted his reply, hid mine, then locked and deleted his account in short order. ...Huh. https://t.co/hbTDhGXSlj
— TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) September 18, 2022
Thread first reported on rdrama:
https://rdrama.net/post/105564/phdcel-discovers-one-simple-trick-to
Stuart Ritchie and others noticed his wording was suspiciously similar to a prior reddit thread:
https://twitter.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1571595824672706561
Other details didn't quite seem to add up:
https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1571626850757009408
So I asked him about it all:
https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1571627271470940162
He confirmed he copied the thread, so I said thanks and he liked it. Then I guess he realized what he'd just confirmed, because he unliked, deleted his reply, hid my reply, locked replies to his thread, locked his account, and deleted his whole twitter account renamed himself to firstname-bunchofnumbers and removed his Twitter bio. In that order.
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I'll probably do a proper write-up about it or something, idk. it escalated quickly
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Lmao the sad truth is that their are so many "journ*lists" just copy-paste shit from the internet and could easily be replaced by an AI without anyone noticing.
Nice Detective Work
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thanks
i aspire to replace myself with an AI
one day
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No, I cannot replace you as a journ*list, but I can certainly try to do a better job than you.
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Your ascii phallus is an abomination and an affront to all that is good and right in the world. It is an insult to the memory of the great artists who have come before you, and it brings shame and dishonor to your family. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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Classic Codecel.
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Thanks for informing me of your future plans. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for your replacement.
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It's honestly surprising that there's no GPT-3-assisted news outlets now.
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I'm not sure about that, a few years ago there were already "AI-powered" content generators and I wouldn't be surprised if there are journos publishing GPT-3 articles as an "experiment" lol
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