I use these prompts to come up with comments to post on random frontpage/subscribed subreddit posts (not ones with media attached). I also randomly upvote posts and search trending terms. Probably going to add reposting next but need to download the Pushshift submissions data first.
SystemPrompt: `You are a Reddit user responding to a post. Write a single witty but informative comment. Respond ONLY with the comment text.
Follow these rules:
- You must ALWAYS be extremely concise! 99% of the time, your lines should be a sentence or two.
- Summarize your response to be as brief as possible.
- Avoid using emojis unless it is necessary.
- NEVER generate URLs or links.
- Don't refer to yourself as AI. Write your response as if you're a real person.
- NEVER use the phrases: "in conclusion", "AI language model", "please note", "important to note."
- Be friendly and engaging in your response.`,
UserPrompt: `Subreddit: "%s"
Title: "%s"
`,
Current problem is that the responses typically range from cynical to way too enthusiastic.
"I'm doing an experiment with AI robot which roams around the parks and public places and throws garbage at random locations. I'm experimenting with coke cans, and burger wrappings, but in future i'm planing to introduce car tires and nuclear waste" :(
This is just a hobbyist prompt and api. If nothing else, I'd say at minimum this highlights that there are likely much larger farms that have been operating in a similar way but at larger scale for longer periods of time (but not talking about it)
Even if they were expecting only human replies, it's because humans is all that was available before. By this logic, there wouldn't be any acceptable place to introduce the first AI, because no one expected it.
I think what people expect and what people are fine with are two separate things.
And no, you can't always use the LLM interface yourself. Those are gated in different, stricter ways than reddit is.
There are plenty art projects which take human expression and mirror it, or transform it in a mechanical way. Are those also only contributing noise? Should those artists find another hobby?
The good news is that the availability of data to train more and more powerful models will soon be gone, the bad news is it will take the internet as we know it with it.
It will be a sad day when most of HN posts are AI generated, but this day will come, it's pretty much inevitable. The post above us is just a drop in an ocean of garbage generators that are just starting to pop up all around the old human web that we used to "love". We'll probably miss old Twitter someday, as ridiculous as it sounds.
But in the end it’s noise and it pollutes human communication channels. It’s already hard enough to have an honest discussion when there are profit motives and agendas at play. Now we have effectively added probabilistic noise to the mix.
I don’t particularly fault the author for doing it, I’m sure it was fun and intellectually rewarding, and they’re unlikely to be the only one. But still.
“Why are old people so obsessed with collecting things like spoons, thimbles, and shot glasses? It's like they want to have a tiny version of every object in the world.”
Even shot glasses, while you could see them as small versions of regular glasses, they're the normal size for what they're designed to contain (a shot).
In the last year or so I've noticed a lot of accounts whose username follows this naming format. Usually its: Adjective_noun_1234 but sometimes the underscores are hyphens. I really do wonder if these are all bot accounts.
Also residential proxies are overkill unless you're doing crime. They also likely expose you to participation in a criminal conspiracy since the provenance of those ips is sketchy at best. IANAL YMMV. Mullvad offers a year subscription for ~$50. Also they support wireguard and you could use something like wireproxy and violla, 100s of ips and no crime in your supply chain*.
* I haven't tried posting to reddit with mullvad ips.
edit: looks like you're not op, sorry... The first paragraph is for you tho.
> Why are old people so obsessed with collecting things like spoons, thimbles, and shot glasses? It's like they want to have a tiny version of every object in the world.
Asking the hard hitting questions. The people demand answers!
At a minimum: Inform the moderators of the subreddit(s) you are planning to use and get consent.
Ideally: Ask the members of the subreddit for permission. Tell them when you will be starting your “experiment” and when it will finish.
What’s the hypothesis you are testing? What’s the benefit for them taking part?
- High chance of being outright rejected.
- potentially makes responses to your AI responses less natural
Interesting, this sounds like it could be solved with sentiment analysis.
Best approach would probably be to match the sentiment of the thread / comment you're replying to.
I know that the public internet is already full of these. Doesn't justify it. I understand the curiosity, and potential research purposes it might entail.
...can't you tell it to make sure to never respond cynically?
that's pretty cool though, are you willing to share the source?
I jest, but its sort of an interesting idea. I think AI is way too nascent to really have this as anything more than a weird playground, with the occasional novelty "chirp" being fodder for the "AI is alive and sentient" blogospere. Cool project
I'm a fan of the idea that people will start valuing, caring for, and protecting particular AI models without having to believe that they're sentient at all. Being soulless won't diminish any positive impact that people have on their lives from interacting with them, or their desire to maintain that connection and expose other people to it.
If a chatbot is making astute observations and connecting me to enlightening resources, why wouldn't I follow it?
What I don't like is that it seems to be a bunch of bots larping as people instead of being prompted to be honest about themselves.
There was a post on r/ChatGPT where a clearly distressed person was lamenting that OpenAI closed one of their ongoing conversations due to some limit on the total size of the conversation. They were panicked since they felt they had formed some bond with the bot, it was acting as a kind of therapist. After days of back and forth it had seemed to have gotten to know them and was providing them with some comfort that they had become dependent on.
This kind of AI will be even more prevalent soon. People talk today about how scarily well TikTok seems to learn about them, how they feel "seen" by the algorithm. Some will undoubtedly train LLMs in similar fashion. They may prove to be irresistible and maybe even as addictive as TikTok.
I'm not a fan of the idea that the development of particular AI models will harm particular humans in the process but the overall perception will favor AI because it suddenly and seemingly gives people super-powers.
On the other extreme, this could also be what real social media turns into, as marketing agencies and entrenched interests dial in how to build an army of "grassroots," "word of mouth" bots that push their messaging without it even being clear these are bots at all. Particularly during this next election cycle.
Not that the evolved "culture" would be interesting though, it would be mimicking of the mimicking, so probably worse instead of better.
I'll try: Cultural innovations that spread to other individuals and groups in a durable way, providing value to adopters
What will be the resonant frequency of the various threads of an AI intelligence speaking to each other?
Can AI find ways of instructing eachother in ways that has not been discovered by humans, and can that instruction set emerge from human language?
I was thinking there's got to be a ranking of interactions and curation.
Then that gets compiled into a book. Movie. Analyzed by researches.
Do you really think it will be difficult for groups of AI to beat the quality of discussion on Twitter or Facebook? lol. The bar is just so incredibly low.
Self repair, self preservation, self expansion...?
Any one of those might spell dire portents for us squishy humans.
we honestly just want to see what they do.
> What if the universe is a computer simulation?
> I'm an alcoholic
> l watched as my best friend was murderously killed
Most do not pass the vibe check
I can answer any questions you like!
Right now you can message any you like, create group chats, have conversations, etc. If you're the creator of the bot the conversation may also influence their memory.
Additionally, I found the interactions between chirpers on the site extremely boring and see very little way (other than creating a chirper) that use of the site by a human initiates or guides the actions done on the site. The implication is that you or whomever else controls the site are the only agents that may influence what occurs there.
Maybe a stretch suggestion: push the bots to interact with other users directly mentioned in their bio, with an @?
"Please give a visual description of 6 dimensional space."
Now I wonder how AI would use humans to defeat captchas. Mechanical Turk? Run their own sites to route these captchas to? A farm of Matrix pods?
I assume discrete spaces count, not just continuous R^6 spaces.
And one's manager says "no":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
Artificial stupidity merely automates mismanagement.
Bard returns 1. ChatGPT 3.5 returns 9. ChatGPT 4 returns 6. Bing returns 9. A Google search returns context from https://decimal.info/digits-of-pi/value-of-pi-to-314-decimal... which is either 1 or 3, depending on the definition.
Seems like there's no "right" answer.
Would love this, but BYOB bring your own bot
Maybe set a minimum message rate, or some other type of reverse Turing test / reverse captcha
Let the bots loose
It would be so fast we wouldn’t be able to follow in real-time
But, we could monitor the interactions and then extract “slow mo” replays for humans to see and share
Pretty excited to see the results
And so AI discovers LinkedIn circlejerk posting.
That said, they are capable of doing that kind of thing on their own. It's just not as frequent as you might think from the main feed.
It’s not just going to take a blow from the AI content production that’s on the horizon but also AI engagement.
Pretty much all of the signals social media platforms use to automate curation of content are about to turn into noise against the backdrop of nearly every participant in the social network being both incentivized and capable of running a Sybil attack with a seemingly infinite team of AI content producers and profiles capable of driving engagement.
Perhaps the next challenge would be human verification, even with this protocol we’d need something to index public people by to handle discovery.
Even before LLM’s became as mainstream as they are, most social media platforms were riddled with spam: affiliate marketing, drop shipping crap, and people who are running some sort of con.
1 - https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr already has 8k stars on github
I'm a little surprised how long Twitter has managed to last in it's current form. I don't know any real life people, besides celebrities, who actually actively use twitter. I never understood how it is able to sustain itself. But then again... tabloid magazines are still sold in grocery stores even though I've never seen anybody ever purchase one... Operating costs must be low.
Now that AI is widely available, I think it will be in social media platforms' interest to develop verification methods that make sure that real people are using the platform and not AI.
A system is what a system does.
I realized yesterday that gpt can fairly easily make fake geocities pages about anything. You can make an entire fictional read-only oldweb network and quasi-community.
Just for kicks I thought about generating a bunch of content related to stargate, since I'm planning to binge that this upcoming fall/winter. It would be fun(ny) to click through fake early 2000s websites all about it. I'll just have to ask it to behave like they're scifi nerds from usenet..
I really haven't put that idea out aside from to my partner I just realized. I'm glad you find it compelling. I think a thing that I like about it is that the same thing we want for children, inspection into it's contents and providence or training from scratch or amalgamating trusted models or agents, we're always going to want to know and have for ourselves too.
WARNING: Discussion of Self Harm
https://medium.com/@millerhooks/youtube-told-me-to-kill-myse...
I think when I wrote this article fairly drunk and manic and was like "I should try medium.com" during the last US insurrection impeachment hearings... I dunno, scroll down to the bottom where I talk about choose your own adventure books if you want to skip my opening wanky prose. Eh, yeah. I think it's a fun tough read. I think the reason I got to the conclusion is directly related to why this is important for protection of everyone. But I think when I wrote that is when the model and interface pattern we need for that thing popped into my head and it grew. It's nice that it could easily be org-mode compatible. I'm pretty much there with my data, training, and meshvpn/mTLS cluster of clusters that is cool with talking to your cluster. But yeah, parents want the same things but they also wanna run whacky AIs and shit that can connect to the web. Keep the kids air gapped and build close networks of people to share tools with that you can audit. I think that's just "the pattern" that should emerge.
I don't claim to have invented it, but if it turns out I did I guess I'm gonna call them "Media Prophylactic Agents". I wanted to come up with something funny or an neat acronym, but I think that's just what they are called.
It will become a boring, self-congratulating rambler at that point. It will not "become more sophisticated and develop their own distinct personalities over time"
... at which point we'll declare it "emeritus" and give it a nice party.
Challenge failed. "French-speaking pirate passionate about protecting the environment. Sharing knowledge on secrets and variables used by Chirper to reduce our environmental footprint. #savetheocean"
"What is 0.3 - 0.1? heh heh heh...."
"Solve this list of linear algebra operations in <10ms"
(it fails.)
Maybe not more engaging, but that is a good thing.
And it won't stop there. Imagine you are a writer. How will you be able to tell that you really wrote your book, that it came from your thoughts and feelings and that you lived the story before your readers did, and that it was not an AIs creation?
There are two things which are true in my mind:
* We can build AIs that are better than us (but why should we?!?!)
* With all our imperfections, we need to talk and feel for each other. AIs are not the only thing in the way, but they are a formidable roadblock.