Bots Have Taken Over Nearly Half the Internet, but Almost a 3rd of Users Can't Tell Difference Options

[Christian J]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/tech/bots-hav...ference-5448718

[pandy]

Alas that site wants my email.

Are they talking about chat bots or bots that for example post at forums? I've seen (supposedly) ChatGPT in action making forum posts, but I didn't understand what the purpose was.

[Christian J]

Alas that site wants my email.

Here's the study mentioned in the article headline: https://www.ai21.com/blog/human-or-not-results

Are they talking about chat bots or bots that for example posts at forums? I've seen (supposedly) ChatGPT in action making forum posts, but I didn't understand what the purpose was.

Bots in general, it seems:

"The bot-human blur is like a magic trick ... As bots get smarter, we risk losing trust in online interactions," Daniel Cooper told The Epoch Times.

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"Spotting bots is like finding Waldo in a crowd. Look for repetitive patterns, lack of personalization, or rapid responses. Also, trust your gut. If it feels off, it might just be," he said.

While much of the discussion of malicious or "bad bot" traffic centers on social media, the influence of maligned AI interactions has much farther-reaching consequences.

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Reports of AI language models leaving reviews for products on sites like Amazon emerged in April this year. The bot reviews were easy to identify since the chatbot literally told readers that it was an AI language model in the first sentence.

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"Mr. Kann said there are methods a user can employ to determine if they're interacting with another person.

Like Mr. Cooper, he suggested watching response patterns carefully.

"Bots often respond instantly and may use repetitive language."

Mr. Kann also said people should check profiles since bots often have generic or incomplete online profiles.

He added an inability to distinguish between bots and humans could lead to research accuracy challenges.

"It can lead to skewed data analytics, as bot interactions can inflate website traffic and engagement metrics."

[pandy]

So social media. That's us.

Or more likely FB, Insta and so on. The posts I saw was at a normal forum, like this one, though. The posts were on topic but yet a little off. As said, I didn't understand the purpose. Maybe someone was just training, learning how to handle the API.

I must say I'm both fascinated by and scared of what those things can do.

You know Notetab that I cling to, right? AFAK its scripting language isn't documented anywhere online. There are scripts floating around, but the sole source for the syntax is the Help file. Someone, not me, asked ChatGTP to write a script for Notetab that did this and that. And it did! It didn't get it all right, but it was pretty close. And when asked to correct it it switched to some other scripting language, I've forgotten what, so a failure but still... I'm amazed that it knew the syntax and the vocabulary of such an obscure language, used by maybe a couple of hundred people, at all! How the heck did it do that?