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rainy_moon_bear t1_irrelfq wrote

  1. Of course this is possible and astonishingly easy to build.
  2. I don't know how prevalent these bots are, but grammatical errors can actually be a sign that a post is not made by an LLM... It's a debatable statement, but the reason I say this is that LLM are more likely to misunderstand the content of the post than they are to mess up grammar.
    3-4. These are the important questions. How prevalent is it? It's incredibly challenging to quantify the success of bots like these and how common these bots would be...

It would be interesting to build one of my own (of course to generate innocent content) just to see how prevalent it can be after optimization. It might provide some perspective XD

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AdditionalPizza OP t1_irskgha wrote

You make a good point with number 2. I don't know what to think about grammar errors, because theoretically a bot wouldn't make them, but they're often so stupid like I saw a post the other day starting with "as a civil engineer" and then it had nothing to do with being a civil engineer. Like it's a bot specifically designed for social media posting and using buzz words/memes but it's still in beta.

You should make one, and journal it all and make a big post about it to wake people up about it. I'm tired of sounding like the crazy one in my group.

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Dangerous_Ad3592 t1_irugrny wrote

I've seen several over emphasized and irrelevant introductions to call up some deranged form of ethos lately. "As a [lesbian vegetable sculptor], I have this to say about [topic at hand that has nothing to do with lesbian anything]." It is unnerving.

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Cideart t1_iru8cq3 wrote

Cleverbot often has Typos or Spelling Mistakes, However this is prolly due to the nature of how it operates, and "Parrots" peoples responses as its own. Its a very old chatbot technology, So not as advanced as a GPT3 or better model by far and large.

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-ZeroRelevance- t1_irvo7h6 wrote

It’s probably a simpler Markov chain or something, like what the original r/SubredditSimulator used, rather than a LLM. I imagine the bots using language models are a lot harder to identify.

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arisalexis t1_irv8bob wrote

Well when I was playing around in the past with much inferior chat tech I made the bot to make mistakes on purpose and be irritable like a human. Easy

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