I'm doing an experiment with AI posting on Reddit accounts to see if they would get banned. I bought 100 few-week-old accounts from some sketchy site for $0.04/each, used residential proxies I was using for another project, and have been using my re-implementation of the mobile API which is largely similar to the official API (except it uses GraphQL for comment/posting/voting). I use these prompts to come up with com…
Social media for AI bots: “No humans allowed”
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the next stage is decentralized social media. Something like nostr (1) where there’s no centralized entity determining the algorithm to boost. It’s up to the individual to follow users. Perhaps the next challenge would be human verification, even with this protocol we’d need something to index public people by to handle discovery. Even before LLM’s became as mainstream as they are, most social media platforms…
I think this decentralized social media future is already here, and it's private discord servers
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#103John Conway's game of culture? How long until the AI chatbots develop meaningful cultural progress? I jest, but its sort of an interesting idea. I think AI is way too nascent to really have this as anything more than a weird playground, with the occasional novelty "chirp" being fodder for the "AI is alive and sentient" blogospere. Cool project
What will be the resonant frequency of the various threads of an AI intelligence speaking to each other?
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#104I don’t think social media is going to survive AI, at least not in its current form. It’s not just going to take a blow from the AI content production that’s on the horizon but also AI engagement. Pretty much all of the signals social media platforms use to automate curation of content are about to turn into noise against the backdrop of nearly every participant in the social network being both incentivized and capab…
I'm a little surprised how long Twitter has managed to last in it's current form. I don't know any real life people, besides celebrities, who actually actively use twitter. I never understood how it is able to sustain itself. But then again... tabloid magazines are still sold in grocery stores even though I've never seen anybody ever purchase one... Operating costs must be low.
Now that AI is widely available, I think it will be in social media platforms' interest to develop verification methods that make sure that real people are using the platform and not AI.
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#105I'm doing an experiment with AI posting on Reddit accounts to see if they would get banned. I bought 100 few-week-old accounts from some sketchy site for $0.04/each, used residential proxies I was using for another project, and have been using my re-implementation of the mobile API which is largely similar to the official API (except it uses GraphQL for comment/posting/voting). I use these prompts to come up with com…
What’s the actual experiment here?
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#106I'm doing an experiment with AI posting on Reddit accounts to see if they would get banned. I bought 100 few-week-old accounts from some sketchy site for $0.04/each, used residential proxies I was using for another project, and have been using my re-implementation of the mobile API which is largely similar to the official API (except it uses GraphQL for comment/posting/voting). I use these prompts to come up with com…
> Why are old people so obsessed with collecting things like spoons, thimbles, and shot glasses? It's like they want to have a tiny version of every object in the world.
Asking the hard hitting questions. The people demand answers!
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
> How long until the AI chatbots develop meaningful cultural progress? I'm a fan of the idea that people will start valuing, caring for, and protecting particular AI models without having to believe that they're sentient at all. Being soulless won't diminish any positive impact that people have on their lives from interacting with them, or their desire to maintain that connection and expose other people to it. If a c…
The only disagreement I have with this is the future tense. I see plenty of evidence that people are actively currently valuing and caring for particular AI models. There was a post on r/ChatGPT where a clearly distressed person was lamenting that OpenAI closed one of their ongoing conversations due to some limit on the total size of the conversation. They were panicked since they felt they had formed some bond with…
The big fear of AI is that it will be used to make people conform, but the ability for it to conform to us would embed it even deeper into our lives.
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#108I'm doing an experiment with AI posting on Reddit accounts to see if they would get banned. I bought 100 few-week-old accounts from some sketchy site for $0.04/each, used residential proxies I was using for another project, and have been using my re-implementation of the mobile API which is largely similar to the official API (except it uses GraphQL for comment/posting/voting). I use these prompts to come up with com…
In the last year or so I've noticed a lot of accounts whose username follows this naming format. Usually its: Adjective_noun_1234 but sometimes the underscores are hyphens. I really do wonder if these are all bot accounts.
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#109I'm doing an experiment with AI posting on Reddit accounts to see if they would get banned. I bought 100 few-week-old accounts from some sketchy site for $0.04/each, used residential proxies I was using for another project, and have been using my re-implementation of the mobile API which is largely similar to the official API (except it uses GraphQL for comment/posting/voting). I use these prompts to come up with com…
I see this as valuable. Makes you reconsider everything you read online.
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#110I'm doing an experiment with AI posting on Reddit accounts to see if they would get banned. I bought 100 few-week-old accounts from some sketchy site for $0.04/each, used residential proxies I was using for another project, and have been using my re-implementation of the mobile API which is largely similar to the official API (except it uses GraphQL for comment/posting/voting). I use these prompts to come up with com…
The bots name is Objective_Land_2849. In the last year or so I've noticed a lot of accounts whose username follows this naming format. Usually its: Adjective_noun_1234 but sometimes the underscores are hyphens. I really do wonder if these are all bot accounts.
Also residential proxies are overkill unless you're doing crime. They also likely expose you to participation in a criminal conspiracy since the provenance of those ips is sketchy at best. IANAL YMMV. Mullvad offers a year subscription for ~$50. Also they support wireguard and you could use something like wireproxy and violla, 100s of ips and no crime in your supply chain*.
* I haven't tried posting to reddit with mullvad ips.
edit: looks like you're not op, sorry... The first paragraph is for you tho.