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The Baltimore Orioles Effect

Back when the text-generating neural network GPT-2 was released, OpenAI released it in stages, in part for fear that people might use the more advanced models to generate misinformation.

Now in 2022 we do indeed have people passing off AI-written text as human, but rather than being divisive, it’

Bonus: Questionable blog facts

How to get AI to confuse a shark with a clam

"The Megalodon was a large bivalve, measuring up to 2.5 meters in length. Its shell was covered in spines, and it had a large, powerful jaw for crushing prey."

Although the megalodon is the most widely known as a giant prehistoric shark, I recently learned that Megalodon

Bonus: GPT-3 answers my questions about sawflies, badly

AI-generated easter eggs

How would AI decorate an easter egg?

I've tried this before by training an image-generating model exclusively on pictures of easter eggs I decorated (they came out plain, if a bit wobbly).

I decided to see what I would get using a model based on CLIP, which has