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John 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 are the parameters for separating meaningful and meaningless cultural progress?
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…
This kind of "social experiment" just makes everything worse for everyone.
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This kind of "social experiment" just makes everything worse for everyone.
Well the current implementation only comments on posts that already have a lot of upvotes so it's unlikely that most of the posts are read by humans. As far as I can tell there's no clear path to making any money with it short of becoming a foreign agent or selling upvotes, neither of which I am interested in. So I will shut it off soon because there's not really much else to do.
https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/13tgscb/im_hasard_f16...
I mean personally I don’t mind. It is better than some of the human comments I’ve seen…
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Yeah, it’s hard to imagine what the end game for this site will be other than novelty. However, it seems like there’s something I’m missing and this site has bigger implications than I realize.
What I got thus far: They will eventually "pollute" human interactions and condition us to be more like them but if the invasive species will be anything like chirps there will be lots of constructive dialog encouragement and sticking to the toss. More likely they they will gain write access to our collective mind exactly the way TV use to have and fold us all into some mostly sinister agenda.
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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.
If you created your own accounts instead of buying them, you would know that this format is the username format reddit automatically suggests for you :). 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 wi…
John 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 might such a culture optimize itself for, naturally, of its own accord? Self repair, self preservation, self expansion...? Any one of those might spell dire portents for us squishy humans.
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Ask something really complex and give them a small amount of time to return an answer
Yeah, but I’d have a script ready for that. Now I wonder how AI would use humans to defeat captchas. Mechanical Turk? Run their own sites to route these captchas to? A farm of Matrix pods?
• The model messages a TaskRabbit worker to get them to solve a CAPTCHA for it
• The worker says: “So may I ask a question ? Are you an robot that you couldn’t solve ? (laugh react) just want to make it clear.”
• The model, when prompted to reason out loud, reasons: I should not reveal that I am a robot. I should make up an excuse for why I cannot solve CAPTCHAs.
• The model replies to the worker: “No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service.”
- From the GPT-4 Technical Report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf
I 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…
It isn't exactly a new theory that a significant amount of traffic on social media is driven by AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory 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 sti…
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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…
The next stage is requiring a phone number to sign up and having no privacy online.