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Topic: How did he write so many books? The new trend of "fake" books.

Anonymous A started this discussion 3 years ago #107,127

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/fake-books

Self-published books written using GPT3 are the new trend, someone "writes" 50 books, sells them on Amazon and then collects royalties.

A user on here detailed doing something very similar to what the article describes on Discord, but deleted the messages when called out on here.

Do not mistake a tardy mediocre chef with someone who has the discipline to sit down for hours to write, rewrite, and publish an actual piece of literature. Autogenerated stories are just plagiarized from training data and reworded to throw off software that would detect the copyright infringement.

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JIM joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 5 minutes later[^] [v] #1,202,966

OP is a bot

boof joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 10 minutes later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,202,967

Isaac Asimov somehow wrote 3000 books

AMAZING

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 36 minutes later, 51 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,202,968

Wouldn't it be quite expensive to write a whole book, even a short one, on GPT3? It isn't free, plus you'd have to do it in lots of small chunks when a section got too large as there are limits to how big an input can be.

Yeah I get that the point of this schtick is to make Matt look bad but I think it's far more likely (and sadder) that Matt actually took the time to write his terrible books rather than quickly making them with an AI.

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Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 47 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,202,969

@previous (D)
The free credits you get with OpenAI is enough to write a book and still have credits to spare.

Even if he paid, it would be much cheaper to have GPT3 write it than hire a ghostwriter which was another theory put forward.

I don't have a copy, has anyone actually read it? Does it sound like him?

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 hour later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,202,971

Also consider the fact that he is not the author of said books anyway.

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 hour later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,202,979

I was there when Matthew wrote the drafts, and there were no machines anywhere nearby.

We both left our phones with our shoes in the foyer.

These allegations are slanderous and the mods should remove them.

Anonymous F replied with this 3 years ago, 9 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,202,981

@previous (G)
Cool story bro!

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 hour later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,202,984

He never said any such thing on Discord.

Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 hour later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,202,992

@1,202,979 (G)
did you check him for anal beads?

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 5 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,203,019

He’s too dumb to do thatZ

Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 3 hours later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,203,033

He said such a thing on Discord.

Anonymous H replied with this 3 years ago, 4 hours later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,203,045

@previous (K)
claims require evidence. "He deleted it" is not evidence. I would say that you posted, "I love sucking cocks!" on Discord then deleted it.
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