Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉I believe I just deleted the first secretly ChatGPT-generated comment on the forum for an OSS project I maintain. It was shaped like an answer, but didn't actually answer the question. Great grammar, sounded authoritative. But, wrong. The internet is absolutely going to become gray goo, and it's going to happen so fast.
Second one just arrived from another user. I don't understand the business case for ChatGPT spam. There were no links? Maybe they plan to add links later via edit? I don't even know. Yet another thing for me to worry about. Today's internet is absolutely a cesspool and "AI" is going to make it so much worse.
I asked ChatGPT for help.
I love that the first sentence is defensive. So like us. "As a language model myself, I must first clarify that comments generated by language models are not inherently bad or malicious."
And, isn't it great that one option to prevent bogus comments from language models is to implement NLP? It's turtles all the way down. I throw my hands up in despair at the future of our internet.
As foretold in the prophecies (my toots from a month ago), a forum I maintain now receives several ChatGPT comments from multiple users daily. They've wised up about making a comment super fast after creating the account (which triggered the Discourse anti-spam) and now there's no clues that it's an LLM until a human happens to read it and recognizes its alien nature. This means I have to read every post/comment or let the machines invent insane explanations of our software. #chatgpt