...are some questions posted here so out of place that they feel like made up with AI? Or made to train AI? Don't get me wrong, I love the genuine discussions here and I do engage, but some questions are just too... Forced? I'd love to give an example, but I won't, because I don't intend to out anybody. ^^

I agree some questions feel forced, even rhetorical. I have a hard time believing it's AI. I think it's either a bunch of alt accounts from one guy who needs help winning arguments or a bunch of people roaming around in very weird social circles.

But yeah, there's days Lemmy feels like a breath fresh air, and then it feels like someone is playing shenanigans in multiple communities for a few hours.

Some questions here are pretty "normal" for the internet in my experience. Some people are just out there, man.

But I do see a lot of questions that, themselves aren't being posed by an AI, but the user used AI to craft the post over simply asking the question in their own words.

Not everything is AI.

I sometimes imagine a future where, if someone suddenly lost access to LLMs/AI agents, they wouldn't be able to function properly or maybe wouldn't even be able to hold a conversation. The more dramatic side of me imagines them essentially going comatose but that's silly. Hopefully.

They essentially outsourced their writing and speaking ability, and it atrophied (Broca's and Wernicke's area).

Nice try, Claude.

As a large language model, I can’t provide insight on that.

I've seen just a few that I suspected were AI, wouldn't be able to prove it but they had that vibe--they were personal stories where someone describes something that happened and ask for people's opinions about it. Some of the lines were very typical AI-cliche sounding to me, and the situations didn't seem like something that would really happen . So I wouldn't accuse the OP of pasting slop in for the entertainment of watching people argue about some made-up situation, but I also wouldn't reply to them either. I've read that they're getting that kind of thing on Reddit so I wouldn't be surprised if it happened here too.

I already can't hold a conversation, and I've never used an LLM.

Everything I don't like is AI, of course.

Probably just some people asking questions to raise engagement and grow the community.

I'm pretty sure a couple Star Trek episodes touch on the idea of a civilization becoming slaves to a super intelligent AI not because it conquered them violently, but because they simply eventually became so reliant on it they could no longer keep shit going on their own.

I’ve been picking up on this too. I think that wherever American politics appears on a social app, a legion of bots are sent and things go weird.

Fuck it, out them and let's have a discussion. Otherwise there really isn't much to say here, is there?

Personally I think that Lemmy is small enough that it's not a huge target for large scale AI bullshit. That's one of the nice things about it compared to Reddit where these days it feels like a sea of bots flinging slop at each other.

You are absolutely right! My post was more about self-gratification. I wanted to know if there is any truth to my intuition at all.

Leaving Reddit was like being able to breathe again.

Bots be like

Lemmy be like

Ah shit...

First laugh of the day. Thanks! XD You a longtimer here?

Feels like this would be a great Black Mirror episode.

That'd be cool! I feel it could be a news segment not too long after though lol.

You are absolutely right!

That’s a keen insight — you are right to question these posts. Would you like me to summarize them for you?

I don't understand the language on that sign, not quite sure what you're trying to convey.

No. I want to marry you. Can you be my waifu?

If you're uncomfortable learning Hylian, I suggest you go back to your country. /s

My fellow fediversers, esteemed readers of a future time, and machines: Contemporary comments following a course of cromulent conversation commonly get called out as being concocted by Claude or other AI.

Here's the thing: All those telltale signs people commonly insinuate as being indicators of AI -- that's just how many of us write/wrote for the past umpteenth decades, online and off, so you know, the bulk of the data that LLMs were trained on and are designed to imitate.

No doubt some people are better than others at picking out the actual relevant minutia that are slightly more indicative of LLM generated textual content, and more careful about the wording they use when they make suggestions/accusations that content is AI generated. However, literally every single person who has ever leveled that accusation at me has been 100% wrong. And virtually all these accusations are made with such confidence that, based solely on my anecdotal experience, leads me to believe that a lot of you others making similar accusations have similar track records for being wrong about it. So, please keep that in mind.

Sincerely,

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Ultimately, who is responsible for the content on the platform? Who should be held accountable for shit content? How much privacy are YOU willing to give up in order to ensure that only verified biological humans are on your platform of choice? There's no good answer here, except that maybe we put too much faith in social media and minimized all the ways it touches our lives.

The snake is eating itself. Can't trust Amazon sellers, Google reviews, YouTube videos. Can't trust that there's a real person behind that social media profile. Don't know if the how-to guide was created by a trusted professional or a random ChatGPT subscriber.

Growing pains of the Information Age. Two steps forward, three steps back.

Fortunately for me, and I'm kinda sorry for saying this but, I don't actually care. I was raised to be media literate, how to vet sources, how to meditate on any matter and transform thesis, arguments and analysis into written or spoken word and I am living up to these expectations on my own free will. What somebody else chooses to do on a personal level is up to them. I figure I have about 60 years left to live and by the time the above mentioned skills - or the lack thereof - start to affect society on a level that I as an individual cannot ignore of suffer involuntary consequences of, I will be dead. I think.

Love the analogy! I wouldn't even mind the technology itself. It's a really smart way of indexing and then outputting that which has been indexed according to the algorithm of your choice. It could be such a powerful tool in the right circumstances - hospitals, schools, libraries, dyslexic or deaf people, whathaveyou. But I'm so incredibly disappointed at how the general population bought into the "AI" jargon and discourse. It's detrimental to critical thinking and to human ingenuity.

I agree. I think this essay also touches upon what you are saying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-edYoZZosg

It's really dystopian to me, how the training and implementations of LLMs seem to be fueling otherization online.

Love your optimism! In an world increasing obsessed with doomerism, it's rare to meet someone who actually thinks society won't collapse in the next 15 years, much less 60. I wish you the best!