Re: Disguised AI bots in social platforms

On 3/27/2024 5:57 AM, Anton Shepelev wrote:

Hello, all.
 
No sooner was Usenet purged of the plague of GoogleGropus
SPAM, than another has appeared on the horison.  Since AI in
general and LLMs in particular are developing at break-neck
speed, social platforms may soon be infested by intelligent
bots that will be rather hard to distinguish from humans
(e.g. when the LLM is uncensored).  Will it be the end of
online group-based communication?  Is there any hope of
preventing or at least staving off this new apocalypse?
 
I for one have only one idea: a heterarchical redundant
mutual cross verification of users by each other via off-
line meetings.
 

"The boy was not sure what he was doing in the forest. He had
 been hiking for hours and thought he was at the edge of his
 endurance. The summer heat and humidity were oppressive and
 had left him feeling weak. He was seeking peace and quiet, a
 place to meditate and escape the distractions of his busy life.
 Maybe he was looking for treasure, but he did not know it.
 He was annoyed that his cell phone had no signal, but he was
 even more upset that his GPS had malfunctioned, and he had lost his way.

 He thought he should be back at his vehicle by now. Unfortunately,
 he was not sure where he was, and he was becoming increasingly
 frustrated. He started to worry that he was lost. He was not
 worried about being eaten by wild animals. There were none in
 this part of the forest. He was, however, concerned that the
 sun would soon set and that he would become disoriented and lost at night.

 He was feeling a bit less confident than he usually did when
 he was on a mountain hike. He had felt more at home in the rugged,
 beautiful surroundings of the Alps, but he was not sure that
 he had the endurance to blast his way out of this particular
 situation. He was happy to traverse the rugged trails of the
 mountains, but he was not convinced that he could battle his
 way out of this. He was grateful that he was a healthy man,
 but he was not sure that he had the strength to hike his way out
 of the jungle.
"

That's the current state of AI for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can't_Believe_It's_Not_Butter!

   Paul