<story><title>Show HN: Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3</title><url>https://github.com/jokenox/Goopt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kelseyfrog</author><text>I love this. It&amp;#x27;s the reification of the Dead-Internet Theory - a tangible artifact embodying the feeling that the internet was replaced by its own simulacrum powered by AI.[1] The existence of Goopt is the culmination of DIT as self-fulfilling prophecy. We can almost see the beginnings of an outline begin to form around an Internet Turing test. How well can we discern the real internet from the fake one. Consequently, what happens when the line becomes so blurred that we lose the ability to perceive the difference?&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;dead-internet-theory-wrong-but-feels-true&amp;#x2F;619937&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;dead-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3</title><url>https://github.com/jokenox/Goopt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marmarama</author><text>If GPT-3 can produce procedurally generated web content this convincing, search engines are screwed, right? We won&amp;#x27;t be able to find anything useful on any current search engine because there&amp;#x27;s no straightforward algorithmic way to tell useful content from endless link farms full of utterly convincing but totally useless content.</text></comment>