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."

[Christian J]

I'm a bit concerned by this part from the survey:

People assume bots don’t make typos, grammar mistakes and use slang

People tend to identify spelling and grammatical errors, as well as the usage of slang, with humans. Therefore, when they noticed mistakes in their counterpart's messages, the first instinct of many participants was to assume they were talking to fellow humans, even though most models in the game were trained to make these types of mistakes and to use slang words.

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People identified politeness with something less human.

Some participants assumed that if their counterpart was too polite and kind, they were probably a bot, due to the perception that people, especially online, tend to be rude and impolite.