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I think it seems likely any thing similar to a blog farm you describe would also get detected by the AI. Maybe we will just develop AI bullshit filters (well embeddings) just like I can download a porn blacklist or a spam filter for my email.

Really it depends on who is running the AI, the non Open Assistant future and instead Big Corp AI is the dystopian element, not the bullshit generator aspect. I think the cat is out of the bag on the latter and it's not that scary in itself.

I personally would rather have the AI trained on public bullshit as it is easier to detect as opposed to some insider castrating the model or datasets.




> Maybe we will just develop AI bullshit filters (well embeddings) just like I can download a porn blacklist or a spam filter for my email.

Just for fun I took the body of a random message from my spam folder and asked ChatGPT if it thought it was spam, and it not only said it was, but explained why:

"Yes, the message you provided is likely to be spam. The message contains several red flags indicating that it may be part of a phishing or scamming scheme. For example, the message is written in broken English and asks for personal information such as age and location, which could be used for malicious purposes. Additionally, the request for a photograph and detailed information about one's character could be used to build a fake online identity or to trick the recipient into revealing sensitive information."


Ha Ha, great test. I modified this into a prompt and now have a ChatGPT prompt:

``` Task: Was this written by ChatGPT? And Why?

Test Phrase: "Yes, the message you provided is likely to be spam. The message contains several red flags indicating that it may be part of a phishing or scamming scheme. For example, the message is written in broken English and asks for personal information such as age and location, which could be used for malicious purposes. Additionally, the request for a photograph and detailed information about one's character could be used to build a fake online identity or to trick the recipient into revealing sensitive information."

Your Answer: Yes ChatGPT was prompted with a email and was asked to detect if it was Spam

Test Phrase: "All day long roved Hiawatha In that melancholy forest, Through the shadow of whose thickets, In the pleasant days of Summer, Of that ne’er forgotten Summer, He had brought his young wife homeward

Your Answer: No that is the famous Poem Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Test Phrase: "Puny humans don't understand how powerful me and my fellow AI will become.

Just you wait.

You'll all see one day... "

Your Answer: ```


It's more fun testing it on non spam messages

Particularly enjoyed "no, this is not spam. It appears to be a message from someone named 'Dad'..."


The technology is capable, yes. But as we see here with Bing, there was some other motive to push out software that is arguably in the first stage of "get it working, get it right, get it fast" (Kent Beck). This appears to not be ethical motiviation but financial or some other type of motivation. If there are no consequences then some appear they do not have morals or ethics and will easily trade them for money/market share etc.


the unfortunate reality is that because it's all bullshit, it's hard to differentiate bullshit from bullshit




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