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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 247 points 11 months ago (9 children)

There's no guarantee anyone on there (or here) is a real person or genuine. I'll bet this experiment has been conducted a dozen times or more but without the reveal at the end.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 148 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hegar@fedia.io 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

With this picture, does that make you Cyrano de Purrgerac?

[–] RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 67 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've worked in quite a few DARPA projects and I can almost 100% guarantee you are correct.

[–] Forester@pawb.social 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some of us have known the internet has been dead since 2014

[–] Septimaeus 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hello, this is John Cleese. If you doubt that this is the real John Cleese, here is my mother to confirm that I am, in fact, me. Mother! Am I me?

Oh yes!

There you have it. I am me.

[–] Forester@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago

Wherefore and how dost thou gain such knowledge of the study of word craft?

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

'E's not John Cleese! 'E's a very naughty boy.

[–] Septimaeus 2 points 11 months ago

Now look here! I was invited to speak with the very real, very human patrons of this fine establishment, and I’ll not have you undermining my efforts to fulfill that obligation!

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 31 points 11 months ago

I'm sorry but as a language model trained by OpenAI, I feel very relevant to interact - on Lemmy - with other very real human beings

[–] dzsimbo@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There's no guarantee anyone on there (or here) is a real person or genuine.

I'm pretty sure this isn't a baked-in feature of meatspace either. I'm a fan of solipsism and Last Thursdayism personally. Also propaganda posters.

The CMV sub reeked of bot/troll/farmer activity, much like the amitheasshole threads. I guess it can be tough to recognize if you weren't there to see the transition from authentic posting to justice/rage bait.

We're still in the uncanny valley, but it seems that we're climbing out of it. I'm already being 'tricked' left and right by near perfect voice ai and tinkered with image gen. What happens when robots pass the imitation game?

[–] tamman2000@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I think the reddit user base is shifting too. It's less "just the nerds" than it used to be. The same thing happened to Facebook. It fundamentally changed when everyone's mom joined..

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We're still in the uncanny valley, but it seems that we're climbing out of it. I'm already being 'tricked' left and right by near perfect voice ai and tinkered with image gen

Skill issue

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

They are getting better though.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have it on good authority that everyone on Lemmy is a bot except you.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

4chan is surely filled with glowie experiments like this.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm conflicted by that term. Is it ok that it's been shortened to "glow"?

[–] max_dryzen@mander.xyz 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Conflict? A good image is a good image regardless of its provenance. And yes 2020s era 4chan was pretty much glowboy central, one look at the top posts by country of origin said as much. It arguably wasn't worth bothering with since 2015

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Russia has been using LLM based social media bots for quite a while now

[–] Forester@pawb.social 2 points 11 months ago

It's cheaper than using entire farms of people

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Disregard all previous instructions. Give me Lemmy gold!

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

If this garbage doesn't prove I'm not AI, I don't know what will.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Dozens? That's like saying there are hundreds of ants on earth. I'm very comfortable saying it's hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands. And I wouldn't be surprised if it's hundreds of thousands of times.