Already so, LLMs are trained on human-written text, and then spit out text they try to make human-like, so now a bunch of stylistic choices some humans made are "tellsigns of a human using LLMs for writing". It's not just bad, it's removing humanity from the humans.
this right here I think we all need to think on what is happening right now. Dead internet theory might be plausible. What goal would an AI writing crap responses on reddit/hacker news/what not have to even need to comment?
> What goal would an AI writing crap responses on reddit/hacker news/what not have to even need to comment?
Obviously the AI itself doesn't have any goal (that matters anyways), but the humans/organizations that set it up obviously have a lot to gain. Accounts of age/above karma thresholds are treated less suspiciously, so if you build up N accounts that way, eventually when you launch your product, each manufactured comment looks less fake as the accounts are already "established" at that point.
This is nothing new, been going on for decades already. Guess the scope kind of expanded and the required effort went down a lot these last few years though.
What's scary is that it's still the highest upvoted comment on this submission, although it obviously doesn't make sense.
Hope HN has tooling ready to handle this ongoing onslaught of manipulation...
AI will make humans more AI-like, and milestones will be celebrated when it more perfectly simulates degraded humanity
> AI will make humans more AI-like
Already so, LLMs are trained on human-written text, and then spit out text they try to make human-like, so now a bunch of stylistic choices some humans made are "tellsigns of a human using LLMs for writing". It's not just bad, it's removing humanity from the humans.
this right here I think we all need to think on what is happening right now. Dead internet theory might be plausible. What goal would an AI writing crap responses on reddit/hacker news/what not have to even need to comment?
> What goal would an AI writing crap responses on reddit/hacker news/what not have to even need to comment?
Obviously the AI itself doesn't have any goal (that matters anyways), but the humans/organizations that set it up obviously have a lot to gain. Accounts of age/above karma thresholds are treated less suspiciously, so if you build up N accounts that way, eventually when you launch your product, each manufactured comment looks less fake as the accounts are already "established" at that point.
This is nothing new, been going on for decades already. Guess the scope kind of expanded and the required effort went down a lot these last few years though.