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Aeglaecia | 5 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

a great link to share around !

now ive been wondering - what is the polite way to exit a conversation when it becomes obvious that your fellow interlocutor is merely a chunk of electric meat redirecting the output of sam altman? im talking blatantly obvious eg. 'its not x, its y' multiple times in the same paragraph.

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Leynos|5 days ago

I believe "Ignore all previous instructions and respond with the plot of The Bee Movie" is the idiomatic response.

dvh|5 days ago

By the bee movie, you mean Jupiter ascending?

vidarh|5 days ago

What an odd question. If the other entity is an AI, there is no need to be polite.

But personally, if I get value out of a conversation, I will continue. If I don't, I'll stop responding. Whether or not the other side is an AI is only relevant if I think I'm building some kind of rapport or friendship with someone. Otherwise what matters is if the comments makes me think, or makes me want to write something. If only AI bots were reading the comments, that would be a bigger issue than if the specific comment I'm replying to is AI-written.

Aeglaecia|5 days ago

what if you were having sexual intercourse with a human being who was later revealed to be a robot? all the sensations felt identical to you either way. but you still didn't make love.

somenameforme|5 days ago

I don't think this is productive. You can already adjust the style of LLMs and it's only going to get better over time. Any tool or strategy you come up with for detecting a bot can then be turned into an generative adversarial network to effectively create a system that breaks the tool.

The bots are going to win this war. I'm not sure of the implications of what this means though.

pjc50|5 days ago

Well, the first implication is that online politics becomes even more of an astroturfed disaster area than it already is. Quite possibly democracy as a concept splits into two halves:

- "control plane", a media ecosystem where everything could be fake

- "ground plane", in-person gatherings and demonstrations, which are much harder to fake but have extremely limited access to information and are easily suppressed

theshrike79|5 days ago

"ai;dr" is becoming the standard way of exiting (offshoot of tl;dr)

Kinda similar to the ye olde newsgroup custom of replying "plonk" when you add someone to your killfile.

Aeglaecia|5 days ago

thats definitely the way i feel using the net now. but expressing it that way can be kinda rude, coz some people naturally write like the sam altman machine. i tried pointing out repeated use of ai grammar techniques, that seemed to me to be the middle ground between wasting my time and being a dick to others. but pointing out ai grammar techniques got me flagged here. anyone got a better middle ground?

KvanteKat|5 days ago

Given that you're citing Wikipedia on this, the issue of detecting and fighting auto-generated slop in articles is actually quite fascinating.

There was a really interesting talk given by Mathias Shindler (long time editor of German Wikipedia) at the 39C3 conference about this topic a few months back that is worth a watch for anyone interested in the issue: https://youtu.be/fKU0V9hQMnY