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Agreed. And it's also the wrong way to approach this problem. We don't need to stop AI text, if some kid on reddit thinks it's funny to run an account posting G

Agreed. And it's also the wrong way to approach this problem. We don't need to stop AI text, if some kid on reddit thinks it's funny to run an account posting GPT-3 replies that by itself isn't an issue. Frankly some of the human interactions aren't any more useful than what you'd get with a bot, on the contrary even in some cases. The big danger is the internet getting flooded with machine generated content. All social networks, all of Wikipedia, everything. To stop this we need sybil resistant sign-up processes. We need to verify the user running the account is an individual human who does not control 1000 other accounts through automation. There needs to be proof of personhood and we should have had this yesterday already. Sites like Twitter and Facebook are swarming with bot accounts as we speak.

easrng 4y ago
That's kinda dystopic...
- trompetenaccoun 4y ago
  There are two futures: One is Sam Altman taking everyone's iris scans (I'm not making this up). In the other we have privacy preserving decentralized solutions to proving our unique humanity.
twawaaay 4y ago
On flooding the Internet with generated content, the cat is out of the bag. There are already people paid to create lots of "personal" accounts and then create content like posts or reviews. This entire "industry" is getting transformed as we speak to AI-generated content. I think this is unavoidable. I think (at least I really wish) there is a chance that young people will rebel and will decline using the Internet and instead learn to cherish personal contact. It make take a generation for this to happen (ie. current children to find out how miserable the Internet is in couple of years). It is also possible that certified human-generated content will become a luxury that you will have to pay extra. It may take some time for people to catch on, but they will find that trying to interact with a website flooded with bots is meaningless, rewardless. Even Internet trolls will stop getting their kick. Internet will become a cesspool where nobody ventures for fun because there is no fun to be had.
somewhat_drunk 4y ago
Worldcoin, founded by Sam Altman, aims to address this problem. It's an interesting proposal. https://worldcoin.org/ https://worldcoin.org/

easrng 4y ago

That's kinda dystopic...

trompetenaccoun 4y ago
There are two futures: One is Sam Altman taking everyone's iris scans (I'm not making this up). In the other we have privacy preserving decentralized solutions to proving our unique humanity.

twawaaay 4y ago

On flooding the Internet with generated content, the cat is out of the bag. There are already people paid to create lots of "personal" accounts and then create content like posts or reviews. This entire "industry" is getting transformed as we speak to AI-generated content. I think this is unavoidable. I think (at least I really wish) there is a chance that young people will rebel and will decline using the Internet and instead learn to cherish personal contact. It make take a generation for this to happen (ie. current children to find out how miserable the Internet is in couple of years). It is also possible that certified human-generated content will become a luxury that you will have to pay extra. It may take some time for people to catch on, but they will find that trying to interact with a website flooded with bots is meaningless, rewardless. Even Internet trolls will stop getting their kick. Internet will become a cesspool where nobody ventures for fun because there is no fun to be had.

somewhat_drunk 4y ago

Worldcoin, founded by Sam Altman, aims to address this problem. It's an interesting proposal. https://worldcoin.org/ https://worldcoin.org/