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		SnowHill9902 on June 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zipf's Law (2008) Does GPT-3 or other similarly automatically generated text also follow this law?

canjobear on June 6, 2022 | [–]

Yes, and the presence of Zipf's law in generated text is sometimes used as an evaluation metric. See https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.414.pdf

Rallen89 on June 6, 2022 | [–]

Considering it used training data of human generated text I would assume so.

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