Re: Disguised AI bots in social platforms

In comp.misc Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> wrote:

In message <uu19el$2sn32$1@dont-email.me>, Rich <rich@example.invalid>
writes

In comp.misc Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> wrote:

Hello, all.
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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?

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Removing the profit motive from the spammers.  So long as gullible
users buy the wares offered, or hand money over to the scams, the
spammers have a profit motive to continue to work around all attempts
to thwart them.
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And what where the motive isn't directly financial, e,g, disinformation
?

There's almost always some ultimate financial motive behind even those
things that are "disinformation".  Find that underlying motive and snip
it off and the incentives go away.  The underlying financial motive can
be difficult to discern in some cases.

But compared to the spammers with clear financial motives (either
direct sales or by scams) the percentage that are 'disinformation' is
relatively small vs.  the huge pile of clearly sales/scam spamming
occurring.  So it would be helpful overall if those had their oxygen
cut off, because that leaves only the smaller set of kooks with their
disinformation to actively ignore.