The bots made more than a thousand comments over the course of several months and at times pretended to be a “rape victim,” a “Black man” who was opposed to the Black Lives Matter movement, someone who “work[s] at a domestic violence shelter,” and a bot who suggested that specific types of criminals should not be rehabilitated. Some of the bots in question “personalized” their comments by researching the person who had started the discussion and tailoring their answers to them by guessing the person’s “gender, age, ethnicity, location, and political orientation as inferred from their posting history using another LLM.”
One of the biggest complaints I’ve heard is that they violated the “rules of the subreddit” which imho aren’t really rules. It’d have more impact if people were upset about the ethical implications, not made up rules enforced by some Reddit mods in their mom’s basements.
I’ve seen that too, and I think it arises from an unusual sense of ownership that mods and regular thread posters have about their topic threads and the individualized rule sets that each one adheres to. Many are legitimately experts in their topic field and they don’t want the info in their threads corrupted. There’s also a kind of weird dynamic between reddit and AI; reddit’s big profit move was/is to allow AI to scrape their content, which many posters are against. Yet many regular users were offered stock buys in reddit last year, and the only foreseeable way the company becomes a money maker ATM is by selling its content to the highest AI bidder.
More and more, it seems like people are using the internet as a big lab for AI usage cases.
left an online manifesto in which he described himself as a pro-mortalist, saying people didn’t give consent to exist.
Nice interview with Ananda Gupta (Designer of Twilight struggle). I did not know he was also involved in X-Com PC game development.
Game gets called, commentators re-run the brawl instead complete with punch-for-punch slo-mo. Elite.
I have long suspected that most basketball fans are really just closeted boxing fans.
Really?
I am a big Nets fan and go to frequent games - and really dislike boxing, UFC or anything like that.
“Not every site can afford to be ‘fully white-hat’” is a very online-business perspective.
Perhaps not coincidentally , the epic games store made me do a 5 part login including pushing 2fa. Would be nice for tech companies to take the initiative in these situations rather than expect us to remember to change each of our 100+ logins