OpenAI: Our models are more persuasive than 82% of Reddit users

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You mean those aggressive morons more Redditish than you expect from even Reddit are bots? Not a surprise.

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It already is, at least on Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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So if a bunch of accounts on lemmy repeat an opinion that isn’t popular with people I meet IRL then that could be an attempt to change public opinion using bots on lemmy?

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In the case of Lemmy, it is more likely that the members of communities are people because the population is small enough that a mass influx of bots would be easy to notice compared to reddit. Plus the Lemmy comminities tend to have obvious rules and enforcement that filters out people who aren't on the same page.

For example, you will notice some general opinions on .world and .ml and blahaj will fit their local instance culture and trying to change that with bots would likely run afoul of the moderation or the established community members.

It is far easier to utilize bots as part of a large pool of potential users compared to a smaller one.

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So open ai is admitting to botting comments on reddit. To be honest with how shit reddit is I actually rather read ai comments than the same stupid reddit meme being repeated for the last decade.

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Comparing Assumed Intelligence with an average Redditor is like asking: Are you smarter than a fifth grader?

Hint: Nope.

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It just has to be proportional. Reports on these bot farms have shown that they absolutely go into small niche areas to influence people. Facebook groups being one of the most notable that comes to mind.

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Bot on bot crime.

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What do you think are the views being promoted by bots on lemmy?

Are their accounts you think are bots or are you assuming differing opinions from people you know in real life are bots? I know people who have wildly different views in real life, some of which I avoid because of those views.

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It is tough to say. But there are red flags. Like when an opinion on a post is repeated a lot by different accounts in the thread but are heavily downvoted and an opposing opinion is heavily upvoted.

This is what I would expect to see if bots brigading a thread are using unpopular talking points.

For example, I see it a lot with anti DNC threads with the same accounts posting similar comments throughout multiple reposts of a single post. If I had to assume what views they are trying to promote, I would say they seem to be trying to discourage democrats to vote by sowing apathy aka FUD.

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I wonder how many of the Reddit comments were from inauthentic sock puppets. I'd guess that subreddit was also used by influence peddlers to train and test their own human disinformation agents too.

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The exact same scenario plays out when .ml users chime in a .world news thread about China/Russia and the reverse happens. On .world the .ml tankies get downvoted into the ground and on .ml the .world users who call out tankie shit get banned. That is an instance cultural clash that fits the exact scenario.

For the anto Dem stuff plenty of us who vote for them don't actually like them and it doesn't take bots to drum up votes for posts that criticize them, but we will downvote the ones that seem to be discouraging others from voting Dem. If they were brigading then the anti Dem posts would get upvoted even more on .world.

There are likely to be malicious actors, probably some vote manipulation. But overall it seems far more likely that in Lemmy the vast majority is still valid users both posting and voting, but that there are malicious actors who are trying to sway directly instead of through bots.

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I’m sure some of it is organic but there have been times when I see a post and read the comments and they are all talking in a way that pushes a similar opinion. Then I see the same post reposted and notice the same accounts using the similar comments if not the exactly same. Often times being overly prepared with links and info dumping like a lot of effort was made to support their opinion. It is very sus.

We may not be able to verify when it is happening but we absolutely do know there are organized efforts to shape public opinion by using multiple accounts to push talking points. And this is done by many different types of organizations, from countries like China and Russia, but also by companies like Monsanto or the fossil fuel industry. It has been happening rampantly for years.

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Their models are more persuasive than a person and/or older model with internet access. Very impressive. I wager your stock is worth all of the gold in fort knox ($0).

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Make up a challenge.
Have your AI win that challenge.
Report „My AI is the best AI at this challenge!
Watch your stocks go up.

Genius.

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Lets put it the other way round: there are a lot of people in social networks who are dumb enough that them being overtaken by an AI is no real surprise.

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Their own older model, no less.

It would be weirder/more of note if their new model was worse.

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No need to limit it to only people on social media…

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OpenAI: our models are 82% of Reddit users

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Hmmm, you're pretty convincing and well researched for a human.....

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