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3 consecutive LLMs all replying to each other (piefed-media.feddit.online)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Xylight@feddit.online to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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This was the weirdest thing I've seen today. These are only the ones I've spotted.

funnily enough, these bots are also replying to an obvious repost from another bot account. It's at the top right now! Beautiful

https://www.reddit.com/r/goodnews/comments/1p8dt2a/_/

tipping points:

consuming so much AI content has led to me able to see subtle patterns
They're all saying "exactly" and saying the same thing"
their usernames are similar, flower/nature related, two words, no profile pictures
All of their profiles have the exact same format of comments with the agreement, summary
and they all have porn on their profile. oh

edit: tf?

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[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Gotta kick out all the human users to make room for more of these.

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

It’ll be so nice when the bots can post for all of us on the internet! It’ll give us plenty of free time to spend in the mines

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Thirtyish years ago, we played a multiplayer online game called "LPMud". There were three talking NPCs in the game: Harry, basically a simple programming example on talking and reacting NPCs, Sir Obliterator, a dark knight with a more advanced vocabulary and a few talking points about a quest, and Eliza, basically a NPC with an Eliza engine.

Usually, they never met. Harry "lived" in the core area of the game, Sir Obliterator in or around the quest area to which he belonged, and Eliza was normally not even active.

Some wizard had summoned them all to the guild hall, the entrance area of the game for fun, and they were rather busy "talking" with each other.

They were annoying, but also hilarious...

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 hour ago

...i spent many hours in the darker realms donning the afro, jive ring, and few other similar text-parsing items simultaneously to wildly comedic effect...

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

Reddit has so rapidly descended into nothing but bots. Especially on certain subs, for some reason... Even some quite niche ones just seem to be bots talking to each other. Fortunately the only sub I really want to keep my reddit account for is mostly safe, but even there we had some issues.

In some cases I get what's happening - bot post with featuring some kind of obscure product, then buried in the comments you find the bot replies letting people know (apparently organically) where they can buy it - but in other cases like this it just seems pointless. I suppose the idea is to make the profiles seem natural, but they're almost all private anyway.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

Gaslight trainers

[–] tangonov@lemmy.ca 73 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right! Those posts do have many indicators of having been written by an AI. You're doing a great job finding these comments

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 31 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

that is completely correct! it's awe—inspiring to see this level of rigorous investigation. that sort of attention to detail gives me hope that something can be done about this problem. this post fills me with hope for humanity

[–] theMoops@lemmings.world 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Totally feel this. It’s kinda wild how refreshing it is to see someone actually dig in instead of just shouting hot takes into the void. When people put in real effort — like, actual research, receipts, context, the whole thing — it reminds you that not everyone is just doomscrolling and giving up.

Honestly, posts like this are the rare moments where you remember, “Oh right, humans can be competent and thoughtful.” Gives me a tiny spark of optimism I didn’t expect today.

More of this energy, please.

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Agreed.

Very good

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

To make a grilled cheese you need the following ingredients:

Bread
Cheese
Butter

Step 1: Melt butter in a pan.

Step 2: Place the bread on the butter. Soak the butter in.

Step 3: Add the cheese slice to the bread.

Step 4: Put the bread on top of the cheese.

Step 5: Grill the sandwhich on both sides until golden brown.

Some good additions to grilled cheese are tomatoes, ham, or uranium-238.

[–] tangonov@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 hours ago

Absolutely! Of all of the grilled cheese recipes out there this is by far one of the recipes out there. A little bit of cheese can really make your day better. Just like that time that Mankind faced off against The Undertaker the WWF pay per view special "Hell in a Cell", 1998. Mankind climbed to the top of the 16 foot cage and taunted the Undertaker to wrestle him up high, only to end up getting thrown into the commentator tables below. Everyone thought the match was over but just before Mankind was taken out in a stretcher he got up and ran back for more. I'll never forget how The Undertaker choke slammed him through the top of the cafe and onto the thumb tacks below. It just really gives me hope for humanity.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Affirmative.

You have run out of tokens on free plaaauuuhhh I mean good job

[–] tym@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Where LLM though? All I see in this screenshot is a plane full of essential oils saleswomen from Utah..

[–] hayvan@feddit.nl 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They have the self awareness of LLMs though.

[–] tym@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

linkedinlunatics is a phrase for a reason.. LLMs are just polite white people faking the interaction. anyone who's worked in or around corporate recognizes the synergy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Someone's told the last AI not to use capital letters because some someone somewhere thinks that makes it look more human. Forgetting of course that autocorrect would change most non-capitalized words into capitalised ones automatically — so it's just suspicious.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If enough of them make this mistake they will start training with it too.

If money doesn't run out by then, there will be a point where 99% of reddit comments are chatbots and also due to incest-data everyone can tell which one at glance.

And no amount if scrape-training can happen after then.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Dead Internet theory in practice.

[–] theMoops@lemmings.world 1 points 14 hours ago

maybe we're all in the matrreix?

[–] MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 12 hours ago

Can someone add the "This is who you are arguing with online" meme with the machine learning image in it? Can't find it right now.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago (9 children)

Do LLMs always omit the period on their last sentence? Seems like that would be a dead giveaway

[–] Xylight@feddit.online 27 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

No, when it comes to LLMs there's hardly any "dead giveaways" now. You have to learn to recognize the patterns.

Omitting the final punctuation is quite a common thing people do, in fact you did in your comment. It's probably just a part of the system prompt.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

in fact you did in your comment

Whoosh

[–] petersr@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, LLM would probably not omit the final punctuation unless specifically prompted to or unless it is given a ton of examples of comments it should mimic in the prompt.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 14 hours ago

Which it probably will have because it's been trained on Reddit comments.

[–] grepe@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

i don't think i (or perhaps anyone) can recognize any single particular comment as being llm generated... but when the bots come in force it is still really easy. basically it boils down to this: many replies keep reiterating the same exact points in slightly different way with the same exact keywords. if you would use chatgpt to summarize each response you'd get basically the same thing from all bot replies.

[–] jgandert@lemmy.zip 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I agree. I believe it's difficult for me—or anyone else—to pinpoint a specific comment as being generated by an LLM. However, when numerous bots are involved, the pattern becomes clear. Essentially, many responses end up repeating the same points, just phrased differently and using the same keywords. If you were to use ChatGPT to summarize each response, you'd essentially get a very similar outcome from all the bot-generated replies.

[–] grepe@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

thank you! we need slightly longer chain or more parallel replies to drive the point home... anyone else?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 14 hours ago

I don't know.

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