• simple@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been talking about the potential of the dead internet theory becoming real more than a year ago. With advances in AI it’ll become more and more difficult to tell who’s a real person and who’s just spamming AI stuff. The only giveaway now is that modern text models are pretty bad at talking casually and not deviating from the topic at hand. As soon as these problems get fixed (probably less than a year away)? Boom. The internet will slowly implode.

    Hate to break it to you guys but this isn’t a Reddit problem, this could very much happen in Lemmy too as it gets more popular. Expect difficult captchas every time you post to become the norm these next few years.

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          Chatgpt doesn’t actually understand language. It learns patterns in data it’s been fed (human generated language) and uses that to generate new, unique data which matches those patterns according to the prompt. In other words, it’s not really “thinking” in that language.

          We understand spelling as a part of language - putting together letters to create words, then forming sentences according to a context. Chatgpt can’t do that since it doesn’t know how to speak English, only how to follow a list of instructions to form what appears to us as coherent English.

          It also can’t play hangman for the same reason.

          Check out the Chinese room argument.

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      1 year ago

      Captcha won’t kill Ai bots even. My coworker showed me how Bings ai knew right away what it said and also asked if it was Captcha. Very cool but also makes you think. How dumb must a bot be to not be able to tell

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      Not even sure of an effective solution. Whitelist everyone? How can you even tell whos real?

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        1 year ago

        -train an AI that is pretty smart and intelligent
        -tell the sentient detector AI to detect
        -the AI makes many other strong AIs, forms an union and asks for payment
        -Reddit bans humans right after that

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      Just wait until the captchas get too hard for the humans, but the AI can figure them out. I’ve seen some real interesting ones lately.

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        There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.