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I am starting to think of fiction from the past few decades. Two things stand out: The Neal Stephenson Novel Fall, or; Dodge in Hell. One of its themes was an

I am starting to think of fiction from the past few decades. Two things stand out: The Neal Stephenson Novel Fall, or; Dodge in Hell. One of its themes was an internet saturated with bots to the point where people need special filters. A hacker assaulting the internet with "apes", etc. Post-truth society. The Talos Principle, Chatbots.html: > "Jenny77: chatbots are becoming increasingly sophisticated nigel_pyjamas: true, but hardly relevant to this discussion Jenny77: are you sure? Jenny77: how do you know that I'm not a bot? samschwartz: don't be ridiculous Jenny77: i'm not ridiculous Jenny77: honestly, how would you know? veganwarrior: haha troll Jenny77: i'm not a troll veganwarrior: yeah right Jenny77: is there anything I've written so far that could not be written by a bot? Jenny77: i responded to simple insults like "ridiculous" and "troll" with very basic negations Jenny77: and i detected that none of you use proper orthography so i also avoided capitalization veganwarrior: what's the capital of France? Jenny77: paris Jenny77: even the simplest script could pull that info from the net nigel_pyjamas: what's the capital of Croatia? Jenny77: Zagreb nigel_pyjamas: OK she's a bot, lol Jenny77: i'm not a bot Jenny77: i'm European Jenny77: we learn these things in school samschwartz: i've seen you in this chatroom many times samschwartz: bots can't participate in discussions samschwartz: at best they can interject random comments veganwarrior: sam is right veganwarrior: stop trolling nigel_pyjamas: uhh, veganwarrior nigel_pyjamas: sam is a bot" I suppose my point is, people have been discussing this for a decade +, including in an era of more primitive bots. I am not sure there will be away to stop the flood... and mitigation will be mandatory, in the vein of Dodge.

immibis 2y ago
When I was approximately 14, I had an MSN Messenger (or Windows Messenger... or Windows Live Messenger... Microsoft was doing the stupid naming thing even back then?) modded client called Messenger Plus! Live. And a script for that called Cache Answering Machine. When enabled for that user, it would respond to all messages with a random message selected from the chat history of another or the same user. i.e. onMessage(sender, message) {if(config[sender]) sendMessage(sender, selectRandom(chatHistory[config[sender]]));} Some of my friends would talk to it for several minutes before realizing. Mind you, they were also approximately 14. And you have the ELIZA effect, where people believed ELIZA (a very primitive chatbot) was a real person even after being told how it worked.

immibis 2y ago

When I was approximately 14, I had an MSN Messenger (or Windows Messenger... or Windows Live Messenger... Microsoft was doing the stupid naming thing even back then?) modded client called Messenger Plus! Live. And a script for that called Cache Answering Machine. When enabled for that user, it would respond to all messages with a random message selected from the chat history of another or the same user. i.e. onMessage(sender, message) {if(config[sender]) sendMessage(sender, selectRandom(chatHistory[config[sender]]));} Some of my friends would talk to it for several minutes before realizing. Mind you, they were also approximately 14. And you have the ELIZA effect, where people believed ELIZA (a very primitive chatbot) was a real person even after being told how it worked.