Elio CampitelliJan 17, 2023

Well, fuck. The GPT disinformation age is now.

I googled "OS for 4gb ram" and the first hit, which also was used by google to populate its snippet is an answer from quora which is very obviously created with #chatgpt (I recognised the non-committal non-answer right away, but it can also be detected by a popular GPT detector).

The user has 98 answers and, you've guessed it, they are all created with GPT.
PLOT TWIST: The questions where also created with GPT!

https://www.quora.com/profile/Heri-Mulyo-Cahyo

#AI

Heri Mulyo Cahyo

Following 444 people. Asked 455 questions. Wrote 98 answers.

Quora
Show threadDanielle NavarroJan 17, 2023
@eliocamp it’s going to be a wild ride. I have already resigned myself to the fact that gpt-derived models are going to make large swathes of the web useless for a long time. It was already happening on twitter before I left - I used to get gpt based bots show up to argue with me about trans rights. They were pitch-perfect at riling people up, and not easy to detect. I’m expecting more of that in the future
Show threadMichael Sumner
@djnavarro @eliocamp that's hell, but also a perfect capture of the slow decline since a golden era (~10-12 years ago the internet and tech was *excellent*)
Jan 17, 2023 at 8:16amWeb
Show threadMichael SumnerJan 17, 2023

@djnavarro @eliocamp I guess you know we're fucked when "I've just spoken to ..." becomes "I've Judy spoken to ..."

like, is it the same guys coding at night in their underpants doing ai? I'd kind of elevated that as the problem, but really we're rallying around "who in reality has an opinion and output that I trust"

Show threadahistorical immaterialistJan 17, 2023
@mdsumner @djnavarro @eliocamp I hate that nowdays, half the things you search for information on return a YouTube video for you to watch rather than just text to read... But it's occurred to me that a video of a real live human actually bothering to speak about something is now just about the only thing you can actually (still) trust to be real!
Show threadCharlie StrossJan 18, 2023

@mdsumner @djnavarro @jimbob @eliocamp

You know about DeepFake videos, right?

Some folks are probably working RIGHT NOW on hooking up a GPTChat text back-end to a DeepFake front end using AI-generated "generic attractive vlogger" personnae to narrate the bogopasta, for advertising revenue.

Show threadBeeCycling has movedJan 18, 2023
@cstross @mdsumner @djnavarro @jimbob @eliocamp
Dead Internet theory looking less like a conspiracy theory now.
Show threadWizardWesJan 18, 2023
@beecycling @cstross @mdsumner @djnavarro @jimbob @eliocamp
Aight, time to just move over to gopher 100%. Hopefully it'll be a bit more sheltered
Show threadKit BashirJan 18, 2023
@cstross @mdsumner @djnavarro @jimbob @eliocamp well, at least we can relax now that we know the solution to Fermi’s paradox. #TheGreatFilter #YoureSoakingInIt
Show threadMichael SumnerJan 18, 2023
@cstross @djnavarro @jimbob @eliocamp maybe you're that
Show threadMichael SumnerJan 18, 2023
@cstross @djnavarro @jimbob @eliocamp ok had a closer look and I'm more sure 🙏😃
Show threadBastien QuelenJan 18, 2023
@cstross @mdsumner @djnavarro @jimbob @eliocamp You mean like this https://www.brut.media/fr/economy/brut-ia-voici-les-dernieres-infos-sur-le-mouvement-de-greve-de-jeudi-contre-la-reforme-des-retraites-12783cb3-5caa-4078-acfc-369a5aedfd2e (sorry it is in french). They create a avatar from a journalist and dialog generate by Chatgpt from a AFP news.
Brut.IA / Voici les dernières infos sur le mouvement de grève de jeudi contre la réforme des retraites | Brut.

Brut.IA / Voici les dernières infos sur le mouvement de grève de jeudi contre la réforme des retraites. 👉 Une vidéo d’information créée par l’IA, c’est possible ? C’est ce qu’on a voulu tester. Pour la première fois, Brut expérimente avec cette publication les nouveaux outils utilisant l’intelligence artificielle (IA). Pour fabriquer cette vidéo, nous avons créé un avatar de notre journaliste Rémy Buisine (avec son accord, bien entendu). Nous avons ensuite utilisé la technologie de ChatGPT pour générer un résumé d’articles de l’Agence France Presse. Ce résumé, produit par l’IA, a été vérifié, corrigé et validé par un journaliste de Brut. C’est un premier test et pour vous comme pour nous, c’est probablement surprenant comme publication, alors dites-nous ce que vous en pensez. On va continuer d’explorer ces nouvelles technologies pour vous informer du mieux possible. Posez-nous toutes vos questions en commentaires, nous y répondrons avec plaisir.

Brut.
Show threadChris LJan 18, 2023

@jimbob @mdsumner @djnavarro @eliocamp The problem is that there are a lot of highly motivated frothing idiots putting out YouTube content.

"How do we find information we can trust?" is a real problem and only getting worse.

Show threadCurtAdamsJan 21, 2023
@jimbob @mdsumner @djnavarro @eliocamp Unfortunately YouTubers are often poorly informed, especially influencers, and they're going to be reading what they Google off the net, which will be full of chatbot nonsense.