[stephentmcm]

GPT-3 post? This rabbles with no direction and feels like something AI would write. There's also an odd jump at the end like it's trying to talk about gaming/MtG but doesn't at the same time.

[alchemyromcom]

One possible explanation is that he might be experiencing depression. It's probably not the first thing you would think of when you see scattered writing, but since it's an article about how he's unhappy, it could be a reasonable explanation. Unhappiness can definitely interfere with thinking and writing, if it's severe enough. That's just a thought. He also says the idea is "disjointed". Often too, when you are feeling uncertain about your life, it sometimes helps to put down a stream-of-consciousness collection of thoughts to see if anything provides meaning.

From reading this article further, I think this a depressed person trying to make sense of their world and emotions.

[motohagiography]

Exactly what GPT-5 would say.

I'm starting to think these questions about whether GPT-3 produced the original article are just what GPT-5 would post to sow doubt about whether it could be as advanced as it secretly is.

[emerged]

Author is 20 according to bio.

It’s probably reasonable to expect GPT-3 and 20 year old tech guys to sound very very similar. The tech will make its way up the age ranges.

[darau1]

Or maybe English isn't the writers first language? It does seem to contain an odd amount of things that seems completely random.

[deltaonefour]

Naw. He has links to a podcast where you can hear him speak. The "Asian Hour" lol. His english is legit. The man Linus is real... the post, however, could be GPT-3. Definitely doesn't match up with his talking.

[jaggederest]

Here's the GPT-3 continuation when prompted with the first full paragraph:

And now that it has come full circle—when I'm finally able to find a job at an agency and find myself not only at work but at home. It seems crazy that I don't have to figure out how to fix my broken life. There are so many things I need to learn. When I go to work every day, that's when I remember a lot more about how I came to see TechCrunch the other day (or whatever—depending on the topic). Some of the best people in tech know when to talk to people about their favorite business. I have been lucky (and grateful) to have such incredible people around me. I love every minute one of them has, and love to bring

Much less coherent, to me, but you'll get different results every time you try I suppose!

[rablackburn]

> Much less coherent, to me, but you'll get different results every time you try I suppose!

Give the mechanical Turk a few minutes to find your post and tweak the response to that specific prompt ;)

[arkades]

I had precisely the same thought. It follows the outline it set forth at the top, but vaguely and without actually communicating any real content. It’s all pseudo-profound Rorschach blot writing.

[gitgud]

It's weird how questioning if an article is AI-generated is a common comment on the internet now.

Web3 should be about AI-driven content, it's much more popular and applicable to the internet than blockchain...

[19h]

Pretty sure the GPT-3 part starts at "So I started paying attention to myself." -- I put the outline at the top and his first self-written paragraph into the GPT-3 playground and tried four or five times until I got something that was pretty much the same.

[paulcole]

Believe it or not, most people are worse writers than AI. This is why liberal arts degree programs are valuable. You get this kind of nonsense out of your system early and won’t end up thinking it’s profound and interesting to other people.

[HWR_14]

I find myself wanting to write, but petrified that what I'm writing is banal and I only think it's profound and interesting. I suppose I could write some and show it to someone or mail a sample to a publisher.

[redisman]

Bots are trying to get us to resign so they can take over our jobs