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The Online Date That's Too Good to be True

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

Chatbots Are Better Than They Used to Be

In 2020, a young Canadian writer named Joshua Barvo got access to a cutting-edge text generator. He trained GPT-3 by uploading a collection of text messages from his partner Jessica Pereira. At the age of 23, Jessica had died of a rare liver disease. The chatty text exchanges between Joshua and the Jessica simulator are surprisingly convincing.

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