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Lots of comments here chiding OP for running or talking about this; I think there's something to learn here. This is just a hobbyist prompt and api. If nothing

Lots of comments here chiding OP for running or talking about this; I think there's something to learn here. This is just a hobbyist prompt and api. If nothing else, I'd say at minimum this highlights that there are likely much larger farms that have been operating in a similar way but at larger scale for longer periods of time (but not talking about it)

M4v3R 3y ago
Exactly this. If one person with spare time on their hands can do that as a side project, one can only imagine what a government-backed actor can do with this technology. I would not be surprised if in a few years we suddenly learned that half of internet comments are bots, similarly to what happened to email (most of email traffic nowadays is automated emails & spam).
- theodric 3y ago
  And after all, whomst among us isn't really just three government AIs in a trenchcoat? I know I sure am.
- Levitz 3y ago
  It really does look like dead internet theory becoming real is a matter of time.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  So we can add the destruction of the web to the risks AI poses? Is there nothing AI can't lay to waste?
- Litost 3y ago
  Is this what happens nowadays when you sign up to a dating app? I mention this only slightly tongue in cheek: a) Because it is being argued by some as a good thing that you have an AI do your flirting for you? "we can free people from writing a thousand introductory messages, giving them energy to focus on the humans on the other side." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/06/ai-bots-chatting-up-matches-on-dating-apps-this-wont-end-well https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/06/ai-bot... b) As someone mentioned the turing test, as a comment on the Ashley Madison scandal someone did suggest the chatbots on there had passed it. "Claire Brownell suggested that the Turing test could possibly be passed by the women-imitating chatbots that fooled millions of men into buying special accounts" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach
hammyhavoc 3y ago
What is there to learn? We already know that it's possible. This is some of the lowest-hanging fruit imaginable and is what spammers have already been doing.

M4v3R 3y ago

Exactly this. If one person with spare time on their hands can do that as a side project, one can only imagine what a government-backed actor can do with this technology. I would not be surprised if in a few years we suddenly learned that half of internet comments are bots, similarly to what happened to email (most of email traffic nowadays is automated emails & spam).

theodric 3y ago
And after all, whomst among us isn't really just three government AIs in a trenchcoat? I know I sure am.
Levitz 3y ago
It really does look like dead internet theory becoming real is a matter of time.
JohnFen 3y ago
So we can add the destruction of the web to the risks AI poses? Is there nothing AI can't lay to waste?
Litost 3y ago
Is this what happens nowadays when you sign up to a dating app? I mention this only slightly tongue in cheek: a) Because it is being argued by some as a good thing that you have an AI do your flirting for you? "we can free people from writing a thousand introductory messages, giving them energy to focus on the humans on the other side." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/06/ai-bots-chatting-up-matches-on-dating-apps-this-wont-end-well https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/06/ai-bot... b) As someone mentioned the turing test, as a comment on the Ashley Madison scandal someone did suggest the chatbots on there had passed it. "Claire Brownell suggested that the Turing test could possibly be passed by the women-imitating chatbots that fooled millions of men into buying special accounts" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach

hammyhavoc 3y ago

What is there to learn? We already know that it's possible. This is some of the lowest-hanging fruit imaginable and is what spammers have already been doing.