by A_D_E_P_T
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- It would be nice if there were an easier way to detect and filter those "reply guys." If LLMs were forced to watermark their output (possibly by using randomly-selected nonstandard ASCII characters in inconspicuous places, like "ｓ" instead of "s") it would have been trivial, but that ship has sailed. The most anybody can do is train another LLM to find offenders and make a list. Bot vs bot.
- I'm really not a big fan of X these days, but they moved quickly on that after Nikita Beer jumped on the topic in the past days:
https://devcommunity.x.com/t/update-to-reply-behavior-in-x-a...
> Moving forward, replies via the API will only be permitted if the replier has been explicitly summoned by the original post’s author. This means:
The original author @mentions the replying user/account in their post, or
The original author quotes a post from the replying user/account.
- Back when I first heard the term "Dead Internet Theory" I thought it was silly, because to that time language generation wasn't really as sophisticated. But nowadays it is really more and more difficult to know.
I've noticed that I've recently (had the urge to and) spent a lot more time with people in real life, not sure if there is a causative effect. The illusion of social interaction on the internet is fading.
When I look at sites like Reddit I have a strong feeling, at least with some of the bigger subs, that there's definitely a substantial percentage of bots talking to each other there. More on some subs, less on others. Definitely on the political ones.
- The problem is trust on most sites is attributed to account history, which is cheaper than ever with these reply-guy services. Twitter/Meta verified badges help, but IMHO the only solution is something invite-only like lobsters, where you can easily weed out invite-rings etc...
by triage8004
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- You're absolutely right!
- If you follow the link to the tweet but don't have an account there you'll miss a joke, because Twitter doesn't show threaded replies to logged out users. The xcancel link shows it. Here's the two tweet sequence:
> AI-generated replies really are the scourge of Twitter these days. Anyone know if it's from packaged solutions being sold as a product or if it's people mainly rolling their own custom reply-bots
> ... and I just found out the category name for this is "reply guy" tools which is so on the nose it hurts
(You can confirm this by Google searching "reply guy service".)
- One needs to consider why the usage of automated responses.
Is it engagement drive? Is it inflating metrics? Is it manipulation? I do not see a scenario where it is purely done because someone wants to be nice.
- So, one of the main problems Elon promised to solve is rampant since his takeover. Even before "AI wave".
I still don't understand why people use his platform and give him power he has, and we have seen that he is using that to reduce children's access to food, promote people who are examples of no ethics whatsoever and is actively working on destroying numerous democracies by spreading propaganda from right wing.
One thing giving him power to do this are users of his platforms, and anyone still on Twitter is contributing to this.
- Just had a colleague discover how to copy paste ChatGPT output into teams this morning. So now I’m getting fed whatever semi relevant gibberish she gets out of her LLM (and likely didnt even read herself)
FML we better develop social norms around this asap because this fuckin blows
by abc123abc123
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- I love AI-generated replies. I use it on all cold mailers who try to sell me shit. I just tell the AI to give me a one a4 response, and to gently string them along with vague interest, but not committing to anything.
The more determined salesmen last for 3-4 emails, but most drop off after 2 or so.
- The crazy thing is, the blatant AI generated replies with unnecessary gravitas and cliche writing are just the obvious ones.
Those are probably replies crafted by non-English speaking scammers from India / Russia / China.
There's probably a whole sea of undetectable replies from people who know how to prompt the models properly.
by owebmaster
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- AI-related xits and blog posts (especially from simonw) too!
- "All these random holes on the ground are a scourge" says top shovel salesman
by BoredPositron
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- ironic.
- Don't believe it, MY FELLOW OXYGEN CONVERTING FRIENDS! This is just outrageous conspiracy-theory-nonsense! This person is clearly and obviously a botist attempting to create a narrative that makes artificial intelligence look bad!
I, A GENUINE FELLOW HUMAN, just like yourselves, have not ever noticed any replies written by any so called scripts, bots, robots, AI, LLMs anywhere!
https://old.reddit.com/r/totallynotrobots
- This has sparked a discussion in my head.
by DeathArrow
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- We need a new Internet which can't be accessed by bots or where bots can't interact.
by Aeglaecia
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
a great link to share around !
now ive been wondering - what is the polite way to exit a conversation when it becomes obvious that your fellow interlocutor is merely a chunk of electric meat redirecting the output of sam altman? im talking blatantly obvious eg. 'its not x, its y' multiple times in the same paragraph.
by LightBug1
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- Frankly, I think AI-generated content is the least of Twitter's concerns ... I'd wager it is actually raising the average quality of content over there.
by curiousObject
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- >AI-generated replies really are the scourge of Twitter these days
This is a complex problem. But the first step of that problem is Twitter/X
Avoid it, and the next step toward a solution may be easier.
by PaulKeeble
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- The dead internet theory is fairly rapidly happening. More and more of the content has been at least significantly produced by AI and its only going to get worse.
- At first I thought why is this truism on HN, and then I realized this comment is from a prominent LLM influencer.
by theshrike79
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- We just should make posting slop made by AI without clear watermark and permission: a crime.
If you made 50.000 AI slop comments then it would be possible to prosecute and PROVE it in court.
Just because it's hard doesn't mean that we should accept it.
The same goes with CHEATERS using AI at universities.
If caught with solid evidence: it should be like 5 years in jail. That would stop 90% of CHEATERS.
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