APEs - autonomous proxies for execration. Social media bots designed to offer up plausible commentary ranging from accurate to bizarrely disconnected from reali

APEs - autonomous proxies for execration. Social media bots designed to offer up plausible commentary ranging from accurate to bizarrely disconnected from reality, deployed at scale in order to overwhelm the information available on a person such that discerning reality becomes impossible. You could probably do it with gpt-2, but gpt-neo's smallest model is perfectly sufficient to this task. All you need is a botnet and a sufficient number of nodes that can get away with a ~1.5gb download, then running a ~600mb model in memory. And antiCaptcha and other logistics payload. (Now, draw an owl.) Previous comment on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21977216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21977216 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell Twitter style social media is susceptible to this, dall-e and lithe synthetic media could make fb and ig plausible posts. Not a bad response to outrage mobbing,imo.