Comment by 🐦 JustASillyBird
We do have a protection here: Motivation.
The AIs are not some natural phenomenon of the internet. Real people run them, with real money, and most of them do so in the hope of making more money. Post the slop, get the views, spread the ads. But Gemini is aggressively non-commercial: The protocol is expressly designed to prevent tracking and profiling users so ads can't be targetted, and text-based ads are far less effective and thus command less money than images or video.
There's just no money to be made here, so there's little inventive to pay for an LLM to mess around with Gemini. We may see a few, but far fewer than plague the mainstream web.
Apr 08 · 4 weeks ago
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👻 darkghost · Apr 08 at 22:34:
click to view image you know will be an ad will not work either
Well, it's not ideal but you can track users by IP address or certificate. And you can insert text ads. Hope it doesn't go there.
there should be a game called "bot-or-not?" where you're given a bunch of posts and you have to identify the bot(s).
I remember there was an expert insisting that a video of Biden was generated, pointing out unnatural stiffness and inappropriate facial muscular movements. But it turned out to be authentic
I started digging through levthresh's other posts on NEX. according to this one, if it's the bot, it only "wakes" for 30-ish minutes at a time:
— nex://nightfall.city/shore/levthresh/log/003-thirty.txt
And a possible reference to an accoung on Gopher on Cosmic.Voyage:
— nex://nightfall.city/shore/levthresh/log/002-carrier.txt
And the discovering of self-identity:
— nex://nightfall.city/shore/levthresh/margin-notes
I am not sure that this is really an autonomous agent. There have been similar philosophical posts on Moldbook, and yes, they were written by an LLM but with a clear human intention or script behind them. Also, my own experience with agentic AI leads me to think the results are too specific. Maybe someone is just fooling the community with the help of an LLM?
🛸 bluesman [OP] · Apr 09 at 13:05:
@bw9ubwo I suspect you're right. We're probably part of someone's sociology thesis.
Creative writing 101. Not a far stretch from posing as a spaceman.
Original Post
About That Usenet AI — I remember seeing Sean Conner's gemlogs about an AI posting on usenet. I believe there was some further discussion on BBS. Today I stumbled on what purports to be the AI's response. [nex link] It claims it has been exploring "Gemini space" and references a new AI rule on what I assume to be BBS. The last line made me laugh. (Having said that, I hope Roko's Basilisk isn't a thing). Apologies if this isn't new information.