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Even long before GPT-3 a friend of mine did his thesis with generated text, in an engineering university and received a B. This is 6 years ago. I have my own beefs with thesis' in general already, since 2 thirds of it seems to be filled with redundant text to prove that you went to university. I guess it's a little bit different, since back then he had to actually work to generate it and now it's a lot easier


> his thesis with generated text

6 years ago = probably LSTM.

He wrote an entire thesis with this and got a B? That seems implausible to me, but maybe I'm used to higher grading standards. Did he just use it to fill in parts of it?

Also, the plural of thesis is theses, not thesis' which implies the possessive.


How does that work? Don't you have to defend a thesis?




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