It would be nice if there were an easier way to detect and filter those "reply guys." If LLMs were forced to watermark their output (possibly by using randomly-selected nonstandard ASCII characters in inconspicuous places, like "ｓ" instead of "s") it would have been trivial, but that ship has sailed. The most anybody can do is train another LLM to find offenders and make a list. Bot vs bot.
They wouldn't have problems telling apart bots and spammers from regular user activities. Lots of them still have problems just interpreting tweets and their replies make no sense. Just removing out-of-place replies using ML will fix most of problems, or even just restricting mass registrations from narrow ranges of IPs.
They don't do that because spams are their means to achieve something else, specifically to get rid of left wing tech anime porn otakus. The comedy of that is that they've been attempting this by complicating the system, which is like reverse chemotherapy that are nicer to cancer tissues than to the body so that cancer grows faster. I guess they take that as a win as it's a positive action with positive reaction albeit with negative amounts in lieu of negative action with negative reaction with a positive amount.
What's really going to be nice is Twitter transferred to someone else. That will at least stop the stupidity of reverse chemotherapy.
now ive been wondering - what is the polite way to exit a conversation when it becomes obvious that your fellow interlocutor is merely a chunk of electric meat redirecting the output of sam altman? im talking blatantly obvious eg. 'its not x, its y' multiple times in the same paragraph.
> Moving forward, replies via the API will only be permitted if the replier has been explicitly summoned by the original post’s author. This means:
The original author @mentions the replying user/account in their post, or
The original author quotes a post from the replying user/account.
The dead internet theory is fairly rapidly happening. More and more of the content has been at least significantly produced by AI and its only going to get worse.
Frankly, I think AI-generated content is the least of Twitter's concerns ... I'd wager it is actually raising the average quality of content over there.
I've been trying to will a web of trust style system into existence for a while now, I lack both the marketing skills and programming know-how to actually create it though =)
Basically a way to see on every web page whether an actual human (or more) in your network has vouched for the content to be written by a person.
Just had a colleague discover how to copy paste ChatGPT output into teams this morning. So now I’m getting fed whatever semi relevant gibberish she gets out of her LLM (and likely didnt even read herself)
FML we better develop social norms around this asap because this fuckin blows
So, one of the main problems Elon promised to solve is rampant since his takeover. Even before "AI wave".
I still don't understand why people use his platform and give him power he has, and we have seen that he is using that to reduce children's access to food, promote people who are examples of no ethics whatsoever and is actively working on destroying numerous democracies by spreading propaganda from right wing.
One thing giving him power to do this are users of his platforms, and anyone still on Twitter is contributing to this.
If you follow the link to the tweet but don't have an account there you'll miss a joke, because Twitter doesn't show threaded replies to logged out users. The xcancel link shows it. Here's the two tweet sequence:
> AI-generated replies really are the scourge of Twitter these days. Anyone know if it's from packaged solutions being sold as a product or if it's people mainly rolling their own custom reply-bots
> ... and I just found out the category name for this is "reply guy" tools which is so on the nose it hurts
(You can confirm this by Google searching "reply guy service".)
I love AI-generated replies. I use it on all cold mailers who try to sell me shit. I just tell the AI to give me a one a4 response, and to gently string them along with vague interest, but not committing to anything.
The more determined salesmen last for 3-4 emails, but most drop off after 2 or so.
Back when I first heard the term "Dead Internet Theory" I thought it was silly, because to that time language generation wasn't really as sophisticated. But nowadays it is really more and more difficult to know.
I've noticed that I've recently (had the urge to and) spent a lot more time with people in real life, not sure if there is a causative effect. The illusion of social interaction on the internet is fading.
When I look at sites like Reddit I have a strong feeling, at least with some of the bigger subs, that there's definitely a substantial percentage of bots talking to each other there. More on some subs, less on others. Definitely on the political ones.
The problem is trust on most sites is attributed to account history, which is cheaper than ever with these reply-guy services. Twitter/Meta verified badges help, but IMHO the only solution is something invite-only like lobsters, where you can easily weed out invite-rings etc...
One needs to consider why the usage of automated responses.
Is it engagement drive? Is it inflating metrics? Is it manipulation? I do not see a scenario where it is purely done because someone wants to be nice.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 31.4 ms ] threadThey don't do that because spams are their means to achieve something else, specifically to get rid of left wing tech anime porn otakus. The comedy of that is that they've been attempting this by complicating the system, which is like reverse chemotherapy that are nicer to cancer tissues than to the body so that cancer grows faster. I guess they take that as a win as it's a positive action with positive reaction albeit with negative amounts in lieu of negative action with negative reaction with a positive amount.
What's really going to be nice is Twitter transferred to someone else. That will at least stop the stupidity of reverse chemotherapy.
a great link to share around !
now ive been wondering - what is the polite way to exit a conversation when it becomes obvious that your fellow interlocutor is merely a chunk of electric meat redirecting the output of sam altman? im talking blatantly obvious eg. 'its not x, its y' multiple times in the same paragraph.
https://devcommunity.x.com/t/update-to-reply-behavior-in-x-a...
> Moving forward, replies via the API will only be permitted if the replier has been explicitly summoned by the original post’s author. This means: The original author @mentions the replying user/account in their post, or The original author quotes a post from the replying user/account.
Basically a way to see on every web page whether an actual human (or more) in your network has vouched for the content to be written by a person.
FML we better develop social norms around this asap because this fuckin blows
This is a complex problem. But the first step of that problem is Twitter/X
Avoid it, and the next step toward a solution may be easier.
I still don't understand why people use his platform and give him power he has, and we have seen that he is using that to reduce children's access to food, promote people who are examples of no ethics whatsoever and is actively working on destroying numerous democracies by spreading propaganda from right wing.
One thing giving him power to do this are users of his platforms, and anyone still on Twitter is contributing to this.
> AI-generated replies really are the scourge of Twitter these days. Anyone know if it's from packaged solutions being sold as a product or if it's people mainly rolling their own custom reply-bots
> ... and I just found out the category name for this is "reply guy" tools which is so on the nose it hurts
(You can confirm this by Google searching "reply guy service".)
The more determined salesmen last for 3-4 emails, but most drop off after 2 or so.
I've noticed that I've recently (had the urge to and) spent a lot more time with people in real life, not sure if there is a causative effect. The illusion of social interaction on the internet is fading.
When I look at sites like Reddit I have a strong feeling, at least with some of the bigger subs, that there's definitely a substantial percentage of bots talking to each other there. More on some subs, less on others. Definitely on the political ones.
If you made 50.000 AI slop comments then it would be possible to prosecute and PROVE it in court.
Just because it's hard doesn't mean that we should accept it.
The same goes with CHEATERS using AI at universities.
If caught with solid evidence: it should be like 5 years in jail. That would stop 90% of CHEATERS.
Those are probably replies crafted by non-English speaking scammers from India / Russia / China.
There's probably a whole sea of undetectable replies from people who know how to prompt the models properly.