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Is it just me, or is the "continuation" grammatical but completely nonsensical? It talks about infants being thrown into dust bins and calling them animals - not in an intentional way. It talks about trying to crawl away from the blood on his belly. It talks about bugs being ill. It just doesn't actually make sense.



Absolutely, because GPT-3 is a super hot rod text prediction algorithm but has strictly zero consciousness or concept of what it's writing about. It's merely using statistics to do more complex versions of stuff like, when words a, b, c, d, and e are used together, words f, g, h, and j are typically used as well. Take this simple kind of idea and push it to the current max et voilà, GPT-3.


It makes sense the same way a horoscope or a Myers-Briggs test makes sense — the reader adds their own meaning.


I'm not sure it makes much less sense than Kafka, which starts with the hero waking up as a cockroach.




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