I would have considered fact-checking to be one of the tasks GPT is least suited to, given its tendency to say made-up things just as confidently as true things. (And also because the questions it’s most likely to answer correctly will usually be ones we can easily look up by ourselves.)
edit: whichever very-high-karma user just gave this a strong disagreement vote, can you explain why? (Just as you voted, I was editing in the sentence ‘Am I missing something about GPT-4?’)
I understand why this was downvoted and I think it is harsh, but I also think it might be good if people take the sentiment seriously rather than bury+ignore it.
If I received a code, I would do nothing, because it’s clear by now that pressing the button would seriously upset some people. (And the consequences seem potentially more significant this year than last.) And I think the parent commenter undervalues the efforts the pro-taking-it-seriously people made to keep their emotions in check and explain why they take the ritual seriously and would like others to do so too.
But I share the instinctive reaction that the whole thing is a bit overblown and pompous, and even on reflection I think it’s at least reasonable to hold that it was obnoxious to throw unconsenting people into a situation that looked like a game, where the stakes appeared (and IMO were) very low, only to reveal after the fact that playing the game—by taking an action explicitly enabled by the people who run and probably care most about the site—had apparently caused non-trivial distress to others and significant reputational harm to the player.