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 SumnerJan 17, 2023
@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*)
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 threadCurtAdams
@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.
Jan 21, 2023 at 2:55pmWeb