GPT-3 Bot Posed as a Human on AskReddit for a Week

The bot had been answering one /r/AskReddit question per minute, in bursts, and had been posting for at least a week. During the week the bot answered questions on suicide, harassment, conspiracy theories, immigration, racism and other weighty topics. Sometimes the human replies to the bot made it clear the human suspected or knew it was replying to a bot, but often the human seemed unaware.

Consider this exchange:

/u/thegentlemetre (Bot): There have been numerous times in my life where I felt like killing myself but because of my parents I never did.

Human: I’m really jealous, since the people who helped you deal with it, were the ones who drove me to it. However I’m glad they were there for you.

This is an emotional exchange between an AI and a human on a website with 430 million active users. It’s also notable because the bot is lying, it does not have parents, it was never suicidal.

More examples in the original post.