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Anti-ChatGPT
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoThe fact I can't tell if this is a parody or a serious project says a lot about the state of the internet today.
- j45 3y agoMaybe it’s a bit of an art piece. Maybe it’s a bit of both. Or like most things good or bad depending on the way it’s used.
- andybak 3y agoThe poor proof-reading rather limited my ability to take it seriously. "ADS" in all caps...
- Fnoord 3y agoAds is short for advertisement. Therefore ADs (he doesn't mention ADS in all caps) doesn't make sense. But author might not be native speaker. Dev Aggarwal seems like an Indian name (to be clear: from culture of India). His profile at [1] suggests he is one of the main programmers behind the social network Dara Network. This 'Anti-ChatGPT' feature could be tested and/or used on said project. [1] https://dara.network/dev/ https://dara.network/dev/
- schleck8 3y agoPretty sure Google capitalizes AD in embedded content
- npunt 3y agoYou are just scratching the surface on something very big here. Media filtering is going to define the AI era and shape our every experience.
- spacecadet 3y agoAlready has been.
- xvector 3y agoThis is why I think locking GenAI models down is fundamentally bullshit - it simply enables greater censorship and centralizes power.
- jackhammons 3y agoWeird project name but cool concept. Expect we'll see a lot more of this concept…
- mbil 3y agoYeah the project name is kinda clickbaity, ironically. Love the idea though
- generalizations 3y agoVernor Vinge predicted this - the "net of a million lies", filtered for human consumption by AI tools.
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- IAmGraydon 3y agoI don't think hiding manipulative content is the right path here. Instead of burying your head in the sand, it would be better to make people aware of the manipulation and expose the techniques and messages they use to that end. What do they want you to believe, and why? That puts you in a much more powerful position.
- generalizations 3y agoOr, even simpler - replace it with the 1-2 word version of the message so that it's obvious and blatant. Like the 'They Live' movie. Long as it's a decent AI at reasonable speed, that sounds incredibly useful. Edit: if those apple glasses take off, and we can live-edit text in the real world (if it's done, it'd probably be for sign translation etc) - those 'They Live' glasses could probably become an actual reality.
- cafeoh 3y agoIt would be extremely useful to know what people want you to believe and why, but how on earth do you figure out someone's intent?
- IAmGraydon 3y agoAttempts to manipulate public perception are usually launched as campaigns with lots of content pushing the same message, often in different ways. In the case of mass media, for example, you could detect manipulation efforts by finding commonalities across multiple articles from one media outlet or by finding commonalities across multiple media outlets. It's possible you could distill this down to something like "From October 14 through October 23, content from media outlets X, Y, and Z seem to be correlated and are pushing the same message, and that message is ---". Having that knowledge would be extremely powerful, effectively neutering manipulation efforts by identifying them as such. A person is far less susceptible to manipulation if they are aware of the belief that the manipulator is attempting to instill in their mind.
- labster 3y agoYou should be able to build a profile of a person based on adtech, credit score, and social credit score/surveillance. With enough data on everyone we could easily determine intent with AI. Though for some reason minorities always have questionable intentions, but whatever, it’s basically a utopia already.
- einpoklum 3y agoFiltering for clickbait and faddy gimmicks, I can no longer access this project's website.
- cafeoh 3y agoI understand that the blacklist is probably just an example of things to hide, but it's interesting to note that if the filter was effective, it would block literally any and all content, including information criticizing and fighting against the nefarious media manipulation highlighted in this repo, but also the repo itself. (note: this comment has a strong political bias, may reduce your lifespan, and the note you're reading might be considered "meme" content) edit: Okay maybe it's not that interesting and that's the exact point the project was trying to make by showing censorship of Assange's tweets and I feel stupid.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoWhy wouldn't they just predict confidences and then set a threshold?
- cafeoh 3y agoA more political piece of media isn't necessarily less honest or more manipulative. Similarly, a very supposedly "neutral, both-sides" opinion can be very manipulative. The best thing you might be able to do is filter out specific hand-picked subjects (like other commenters said QAnon or specific conspiracies), but I doubt you need more than basic keyword matching for that. Anything further feels to me like you're just tightening an echo-chamber.
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- JohnMakin 3y agoThat isn’t what censorship is.
- MadSudaca 3y agoReminds me of that black mirror episode where people could block others from their sight, making them inaudible, and appearing as blackened figure.
- sterlind 3y agoalso a subplot in Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex. in a world of ubiquitous bionic eyes, Laughing Man manages to hack the eyeballs of everyone who looks at him to replace his head with an animated gif.
- akoboldfrying 3y agoIf I turned this thing on, it would be obliged to hide its own existence from me, on the grounds that it's: - potentially trying to spread misinformation - sounds like clickbait - contains politically biased content
- IshKebab 3y agoHow is it trying to spread misinformation or politically biased?
- kennywinker 3y agoI can answer the second part: opposing ai is political.
- Zambyte 3y agoIt isn't opposing AI. It is AI.
- kennywinker 3y agoAI deployed to counteract the impact of AI: "With Anti-ChatGPT, you as an individual have the power to fight the AIs trying to manipulate you." Whether the product itself opposes AI or is AI or both is immaterial, since the description of the product on the repo takes a "politically biased" position.
- ltbarcly3 3y agoRight. All statements about anything are completely biased. As Nietzsche points out, the preference for being alive is a bias. All of life is predicated on this bias, without which animals would simply stop eating or moving or breathing. It's all bias all the time, everywhere. And as you point out, even a statement of pure fact demonstrates bias as it was bias that led to it being expressed at all rather than merely standing mute.
- wanderingstan 3y agoA start of a “Coasean filter” as discussed back in 2007. > “…technological device he calls a “Coasean filter,” that would compare all incoming marketing messages with the particular consumer’s current utility as determined from an analysis of the consumer’s current location, her response to prior messages, her own communications, etc.” https://goldhaber.org/attention-marketing-a-coasean-filter-and-utility/ https://goldhaber.org/attention-marketing-a-coasean-filter-a...
- kennywinker 3y agolol @ filtering "politically biased content". If you apply this filter you're not neutralizing biases, just adding a bias towards the status quo. The status quo being by definition not progressive, that unfortunately means you've given yourself a conservative bias. You've also offloaded the decision about what is political material to an AI - which has a biased view of what is politically biased based on its training data.
- freedomben 3y agoUsing traditional (and IMHO more correct) definitions of conservative and progressive, you are of course correct. However, at least in the US those terms have pretty different meanings to most people IRL. For example, the "conservative" position on Roe v. Wade was to change the status quo, and the "progressive" position was largely to stick with the status quo. Conservatives largely want to change the status quo on funding the Ukraine war, while progresses don't. I'm sure there are other examples, but anyway if you limited yourself to the traditional definitions, you'd be utterly perplexed by such a thing.
- wildrhythms 3y agoI think the person you're replying to is using the term in its academic form. Conservatism seeks to conserve [the status quo]. This transcends any colloquial gobbledygook.
- freedomben 3y agoYou could be right, although given that it is explicitly about filtering contemporary political bias, that would be an unhelpful definition to work with. Also many progressives nowadays will say the same thing about issues at work for example. When people say things like, "let's keep politics out of the workplace" they will say that is impossible because that reinforces the status quo, which is a political viewpoint.
- kennywinker 3y agoWanting to undo progress isn’t progress. Going back to “the way things were” (not a real thing) is a pretty central idea to conservatism both in theory and in practice in the US. To your example: calling roe v wade the status quo because it was the law from 1973 to 2023 seems like a stretch to me. As for the ukraine war example, yeah that one kinda breaks the mold. My best understanding of it is because the conservative position is to seek national strength, rather than the less concrete strength of unity. Sometimes that means war (e.g. iraq and afghanistan, nominally to prevent future terrorist attacks) and sometimes that means not-war as in the case where the benefit of keeping ukraine free, to the US, is unclear. Ultimately i think you’re right - as a political ideology, conservatism is more fickle than just “don’t change things” - but since that impulse is definitely in there i think my original point stands
- la64710 3y agoThe name is misleading
- ltbarcly3 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message There is very little point in trying to 'fix' content streams by filtering, censoring, or 'making them safe'. The content is just bait, the consequences you are attempting to avoid by filtering or improving the stream of content are inevitable and unavoidable so long as you sell your attention to that content provider at all. The mechanisms that are used to massage you into consuming more and more of that media stream are the things you should be concerned about, not what the specific message encoded into any specific piece. Example: You scroll tiktok for an hour. You might see pro hamas videos, anti hamas videos. You might just see videos of puppies. Whatever the the algorithm shows you, the effect of the specific videos it shows you is so small as to be irrelevant compared to the way the application causes rewards to be triggered in your brain and encourages you to continue to use the app. Worrying about the details of specific videos it shows you is like worrying about whether your Oxycontin chewables are cherry or blue raspberry. I love that this is demonstrated by the filter completely redacting literally every tweet in the example.
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- zug_zug 3y agoFor a while email was perfect. Then spam came and it was unusable. Then spam filters came, and email is outstanding again (the end). For a while the web was great, then everything was an ad. Will the ability for consumers to adblock be the technology free us from capitalist web enhsit?
- pixl97 3y agoWith Google going to war on adblock... questionable.
- bscphil 3y agoThe name "anti-ChatGPT" is rather weird, no? The project is a use of ChatGPT to block content that is not necessarily AI related or AI generated, and that the developer claims (probably sarcastically) not to like. > With Anti-ChatGPT, you as an individual have the power to fight the AIs trying to manipulate you. But it appears to do nothing of the sort. The example given immediately below this is a Twitter comment by a EU official being blocked by the script, as well as several other posts engaging with it. I don't have any reason to think these people are AIs or are using AIs. So how is this anti-ChatGPT?
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoMaybe it just blocks talking in an overly convoluted way? ChatGTP winds up with that by default, but anyone talking in a very officious or even just extremely thought out careful manner could come off like that as well. I can see some merit to blocking that out, it’s not something that everyone wants to read, and in fact, lots of people’s own BS detectors are tuned the same way.