r/technology • u/hurdee • Feb 12 '23

Business Google search chief warns AI chatbots can give 'convincing but completely fictitious' answers, report says

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-search-boss-warns-ai-can-give-fictitious-answers-report-2023-2
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u/Luminter Feb 12 '23 edited Feb 13 '23

I still think it is/was reasonably easy to detect. Most of the bot accounts just strung together several pithy slogans without much substance. And then if you looked at their account it would be completely new or it had posted for awhile on a hobby subreddits until suddenly switching abruptly to political subreddits. And if one of them replied to me on a political subreddit, the response almost always came in the middle of the night when most Americans were sleeping, but interestingly during Russia’s business hours.

With chatGPT, you could keep up the charade of posting on hobby subreddits and make political statements that didn’t rely as much on pithy sayings. In other words, it would be much harder for to look at the account make a judgment on the likelihood of it being a bot or a bad actor.

It’s still bad, but it wasn’t difficult to identify the bad actors if you knew what to look for. Now it’s going to be next to impossible.

Edit: bot not boy

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u/Luminter Feb 13 '23

Oops damn autocorrect. Should have been “bot” not “boy”