[HN Gopher] Realistic Synthetic UGC: A Scaffolding Approach to G...
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       Realistic Synthetic UGC: A Scaffolding Approach to Generating
       Online Discussions
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2024-08-25 22:32 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | mistermann wrote:
       | Oh boy...let's hope the power of recursion breaks to the upside
       | on this one. For some reason, I am not optimistic.
        
       | noman-land wrote:
       | This is all feeling very incestuous and rapidly unmooring from
       | reality.
        
         | PaulHoule wrote:
         | You gotta remember that Reddit started out with fake UGC. It
         | was very possible to do 20 years ago there just wasn't so much
         | breathless talk about it.
        
           | noman-land wrote:
           | Yes but that was to trick people into thinking it was popular
           | and hopping on the bandwagon.
           | 
           | This is talking about using this synthetic data for research.
        
             | PaulHoule wrote:
             | "Trick" maybe but I think every successful social platform
             | has a body buried somewhere. The two-sided market problem
             | is just that tough.
        
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