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AI is even going to make us obsolete here on TD

Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:36 am
Posted by TigerinATL
Member since Feb 2005
62446 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:36 am
TL;DR a bot posted on reddit and passed as human for a week before it got found out. It got discovered not because it's posts were bad/robotic, but because it was posting too many deep, well thought out posts too often to be human.

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Bot posing as human fooled people on Reddit for an entire week

An advanced artificial intelligence was able to post to Reddit and interact with other users for more than a week before anyone realised it was a bot.

The AI posed as a human user under the username ‘thegentlemetre’, posting to Q&A forums AskReddit and AskScience on subjects ranging from suicide to “hot milfs”. Some of the posts received hundreds of upvotes, including one about homeless people living in elevator shafts.

...It was only found out when one Reddit user noted the output and length of thegentlemetre’s posts. “How does this user post so many large, deep posts so rapidly,” the user asked.

Software engineer Philip Winston investigated the suspicious activity and concluded that the bot used the GPT-3 language model developed by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by Elon Musk.


More details at the LINK
This post was edited on 10/15/20 at 7:37 am
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
15535 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:37 am to
gosh dang i wonder how many bots there are on TD
This post was edited on 10/15/20 at 8:28 am
Posted by TigerinATL
Member since Feb 2005
62446 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:39 am to
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i wonder how many bots their are on TD


The first thing to look for is the ones that know how to use the right form of there/their/they're.
Posted by Jimbeaux
Member since Sep 2003
21298 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:39 am to
quote:

It was only found out when one Reddit user noted the output and length of thegentlemetre’s posts. “How does this user post so many large, deep posts so rapidly,” the user asked.


Is Tulane/LSU a bot?
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
72554 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:39 am to
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it was posting too many deep, well thought out posts too often to be human.
<——Could be a bot???
Posted by VanRIch
Wherever
Member since Sep 2007
11397 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:39 am to
Terminator will absolutely be a reality. But they won’t be so barbaric. they’ll be sophisticated and we won’t ever know that eventually everyone will be robots.
Posted by Jimbeaux
Member since Sep 2003
21298 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:44 am to
Anyone ever watch the original version (1956) of Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

That shite was on-point.
Posted by Lima Whiskey
Member since Apr 2013
22594 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:44 am to
The difference between fewer and less trips up a lot of posters.
Posted by BeachDude022
Premium Elite Platinum TD Member
Member since Dec 2006
36406 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:46 am to
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Is Tulane/LSU a bot?


None of his posts are deep and well thought out. It’s a dumpster of random top 10 lists that maybe 4 people care about.
This post was edited on 10/15/20 at 7:47 am
Posted by crewdepoo
Hogwarts
Member since Jan 2015
10871 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:50 am to
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gosh dang i wonder how many bots their are on TD
I assume there’s bunch of Russian bots on the poli board getting everyone worked up
Posted by tigeraddict
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2007
14325 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:52 am to
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gosh dang i wonder how many bots their are on TD


He is you answer:

quote:

“How does this user post so many large, deep posts so rapidly


no deep posts to be found here...
Posted by Odysseus32
Member since Dec 2009
9564 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:56 am to
God I hate Reddit.

I used to love it.

I still go to it, but I subscribe to 4 subreddits and stay off r/all. It's way better, but even then I see myself getting fed up with threads that have one viewpoint pushed to the top, and anyone who dissents has their comments literally hidden at the bottom.

It's a great place for info, but don't dare deviate from the narrative. Don't you dare.
Posted by Kentucker
Rabbit Hash, KY
Member since Apr 2013
20055 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:56 am to
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”How does this user post so many large, deep posts so rapidly,”


It’s best to post quips and insults when posing as a human. The average male attention span is about three sentences.
Posted by Black n Gold
Member since Feb 2009
15773 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 7:58 am to
Yahoo and HuffPost article writers are salivating at the idea. Flood Reddit and Twitter with AI generated politically charged garbage, then write a article about it.
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
22687 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 8:00 am to
Y'all know I'm human. I'm too dumb to be a robot.
Posted by windshieldman
Member since Nov 2012
12818 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 8:03 am to
In case my employer reads this board, Windshieldman is a bot

ETA: A dumb bot, not one with deep thoughts
This post was edited on 10/15/20 at 8:09 am
Posted by LoneStar23
USA
Member since Aug 2019
5781 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 8:07 am to
AI frightens me
This post was edited on 10/15/20 at 8:13 am
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
33616 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 8:17 am to
quote:

God I hate Reddit.

I used to love it.


Same here, how hard would it be for a bot to go undetected on Reddit as long as it went along with their overall narrative?
Posted by MSTiger33
Member since Oct 2007
21402 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 8:19 am to
Oweo has wheels so he is already part bot
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope
Cloud 8
Member since Nov 2012
6324 posts
Posted on 10/15/20 at 8:22 am to
quote:

The first thing to look for is the ones that know how to use the right form of there/their/they're.


Maybe so.
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