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I feel like there is a pending wave of AI bots incoming (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 2 years ago by CoffeeBlood91 to c/[email protected]

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Everything on here is awesome right now, it feels like an online forum from the 2000s, everyone is friendly, optimistic, it feels like the start to something big.

Well, as we all know, AI has gotten very smart to the point captcha's are useless, and it can engage in social forums disguised as a human.

With Reddit turning into propaganda central anda greedy CEO that has the motive to sell Reddit data to AI farms, I worry that the AI will be able to be prompted to target websites such as the websites in the fediverse.

Right now it sounds like paranoia, but I think we are closer to this reality than we may know.

Reddit has gotten nuked, so we built a new community, everyone is pleasantly surprised by the change of vibe around here, the over all friendlyness, and the nostalgia of old forums.

Could this be the calm before the storm?

How will the fediverse protect its self from these hypothetical bot armies?

Do you think Reddit/big companies will make attacks on the fediverse?

Do you think clickbait posts will start popping up in pursuit of ad revenue?

What are your thoughts and insights on this new "internet 2.0"?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm thinking it's more a matter of months. It does not take long to direct already trained data sets towards new targets, especially trained off of Reddit data. And I think local language models will be used in the process as they are run exclusively off a single computer and doesnt follow strict rules.

Someone can have an intelligence on their computer with the motive to take over websites by creating interesting reading material. While the computer is also programmed to have multiple accounts open, upvoting each of their comments and posts.