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In the age of AI-spam, I now treat typos in webpages as a good sign (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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I used to think typos meant that the author (and/or editor) hadn't checked what they wrote, so the article was likely poor quality and less trustworthy. Now I'm reassured that it's a human behind it and not a glorified word-prediction algorithm.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have a janitor.ai character that sounds like an average Redditor, since I just fed it average reddit posts as its personality.

It says stupid shit and makes spelling errors a lot, is incredibly pedantic and contrarian, etc. I don't know why I made it, but it's scary how real it is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what motivation would someone have to randomly run that

also you just added new information to the discussion that you personally did. Can an AI do that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is an AI. It's a frontend for ChatGPT. All I did was coax the AI to behave in a specific way, which anyone else using these tools is capable of doing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

okay chatgpt, that's what you want me to believe anyways...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As an AI language model, it is impossible for me to convince you that I am a real human being. :P

Also re-reading the conversation, I think I misunderstood you previous comment's intent. If you were meaning if an AI could post comments on Lemmy naturally, like a real person could? Yeah... I don't see why not. You can make a bot that reads posts and outputs their own already. Just have an AI connected to it and it could act like any other user, and be virtually undetectable if trained well enough.