I think we've all been here before:
"i've been asked to use Json to call a webservice. I don't modify a JSON object at all. However, when calling JSON returned by the Json object, it fails because the object life isn't array!"
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#112"View from View to View, Need to open this new View in View" https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/4781 A common problem for everyone, i'm sure.
I got a surprisingly comprehensible (and similarly recursive) ListView question: https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/15327.
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#113"I have creating a PNG Image file where I am printing out the image's with different colors and Image Types. Now I am sure I am drawing properly, but what I'm seeing is that the image is not differently jpeg (ie FF or Chrome) and Safari (for Firefox) is different from the one in Firefox. " As a bit of a connoisseur of babblebots over the decades, one of the interesting things about this generation is that it is produ…
You might like this post from last week:
Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is like a mental tarpit, where you waste time reading trying to understand what the person is saying only to realize they were a bot and all your effort was for nothing, that is time you will never get back now. This is a terrifying way to destroy an online community if a person floods it with nonsense content like this.
Terrifying -> inevitable. Imagine a botnet full of fake AI users trained with a corpus of legit HN posts. Let them loose commenting on random articles, beginning slowly but ramping up until they’re 99% of all comments. In a few years, the standard Silicon Valley “Growth Hacking” job description will include using AI to deploy fake content to your competitors’ sites, destroying their user community.
Two potential solutions: Reputation and a new account fee.
Nonsense flooding will make it more difficult for people to establish their identities on a network, but once it's established, they'll be in the clear. If someone has to pay to have their first thread or two reviewed, it will take serious money to flood a site to death.
(A similar solution to email spam has been waiting to happen for decades -- charge a fraction of a penny per email, and nobody is harmed but spammers. Maybe allow exceptions for officially recognized organizations that have to send a lot of messages, like political campaigns.)
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#115Absolute gold: "Is there a animal out there that someone can apply to do the sort of thing I'm looking for?" Not sure what happened to the title that time. https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/11716 (perhaps op is a vim user)
Try a Python or a Pony, or maybe even an OCaml.
Probably OCaml: that looks like an ML-style function signature.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is like a mental tarpit, where you waste time reading trying to understand what the person is saying only to realize they were a bot and all your effort was for nothing, that is time you will never get back now. This is a terrifying way to destroy an online community if a person floods it with nonsense content like this.
Terrifying -> inevitable. Imagine a botnet full of fake AI users trained with a corpus of legit HN posts. Let them loose commenting on random articles, beginning slowly but ramping up until they’re 99% of all comments. In a few years, the standard Silicon Valley “Growth Hacking” job description will include using AI to deploy fake content to your competitors’ sites, destroying their user community.
I'm positively sure these tactics are already being deployed as a weapon in order to shut down debate of certain inconvenient topics and disrupt problematic communities.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
But the issue is not just what he could do, but what malicious content generation systems could do.
The issue is, as stated: > I am actually a bit worried that I’m already starting to see search engine traffic coming in... We can discuss hypothetical systems that could maliciously flood us with generated content. The creator of this particular service which is being discussed here and now could also begin taking steps to ensure that his creation does not inadvertently create a problem for some hapless Google user.
Well, no. You have to read further up the thread to see the issue I was referring to.
>I wonder if our current discussion boards on the interwebs can survive the coming influx of content like this and the next generations of it that follow.
Yes the robots.txt is a good and trivial step he could take to ensure well behaved robots do not pick up his content. So your comment suggesting robots.txt is a good comment in its narrow frame, but one that missed the larger picture. That minor problem is solved. The interesting problem is of a different nature.
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#118Comgratulations, you have simulated a million monkeys at typewriters with a million monkeys at typewriters. Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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#119I reviewed 1600 edits at StackOverflow. And I can say that some of the automatically generated questions are more intelligible than the average SO question. For example, this one looks fine to me: https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/11235
Likewise, I'm not sure I'd think anything was strange if I came across https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/12110.
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#120Can we please get a Jon Skeet neural network to provide answers?