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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Disguised AI bots in social platforms
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:14:58 -0000 (UTC)
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In comp.misc Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> wrote:
> In message <uu19el$2sn32$1@dont-email.me>, Rich <rich@example.invalid> 
> writes
>>In comp.misc Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello, all.
>>>
>>> No sooner was Usenet purged of the plague of GoogleGropus SPAM, 
>>> than another has appeared on the horison.  Since AI in general and 
>>> LLMs in particular are developing at break-neck speed, social 
>>> platforms may soon be infested by intelligent bots that will be 
>>> rather hard to distinguish from humans (e.g.  when the LLM is 
>>> uncensored).  Will it be the end of online group-based 
>>> communication?  Is there any hope of preventing or at least staving 
>>> off this new apocalypse?
>>
>>Removing the profit motive from the spammers.  So long as gullible 
>>users buy the wares offered, or hand money over to the scams, the 
>>spammers have a profit motive to continue to work around all attempts 
>>to thwart them.
>>
> 
> And what where the motive isn't directly financial, e,g, disinformation 
> ?

There's almost always some ultimate financial motive behind even those 
things that are "disinformation".  Find that underlying motive and snip 
it off and the incentives go away.  The underlying financial motive can 
be difficult to discern in some cases.

But compared to the spammers with clear financial motives (either 
direct sales or by scams) the percentage that are 'disinformation' is 
relatively small vs.  the huge pile of clearly sales/scam spamming 
occurring.  So it would be helpful overall if those had their oxygen 
cut off, because that leaves only the smaller set of kooks with their 
disinformation to actively ignore.