This was comments, not posts. They were using a model to approximate the demographics of a poster, then using an LLM to generate a response counter to the posted view tailored to the demographics of the poster.
LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If anyone wants to know what subreddit, it’s r/changemyview. I remember seeing a ton of similar posts about controversial opinion ne and even now people are questioning Am I overreacting a lot and AITAH. AI posts in those kind of subs are seemingly pretty frequent.
eRac@lemmings.world 1 day ago
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
You’re right about this study. But, this research group isn’t the only one using LLMs to generate content on social media.
There are 100% posts that are bot created. Do you ever notice how, on places like Am I Overreacting or Am I the Asshole that a lot of the posts just so happen to hit all of the hot button issues all at once? Nobody’s life is that cliche, but it makes excellent engagement bait and the comment chain provides a huge amount of training data as the users argue over the various topics.
I use a local LLM, that I’ve fine tuned, to generate replies to people, who are obviously arguing in bad faith, in order to string them along and waste their time. It’s setup to lead the conversation, via red herrings and other various fallacies to the topic of good faith arguments and how people should behave in online spaces. It does this while picking out pieces of the conversation (and from the user’s profile) in order to chastise the person for their bad behavior. It would be trivial to change the prompt chains to push a political opinion rather than to just waste a person/bot’s time.
This is being done on under $2,000 worth of consumer hardware, by a barely competent progammer with no training in Psychology or propaganda. It’s terrifying to think of what you can do with a lot of resources and experts.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 13 hours ago
AIO and AITAH are so obviously just AI posting. It’s all just a massive circlejerk of AI and people who don’t know they’re talking to AI agreeing with each other.
jonne@infosec.pub 1 day ago
AI posts or just creative writing assignments.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Right. Subs like these are great fodder for people who just like to make shit up.
WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 23 minutes ago
The jimi-halloween trend from Japan but it’s /r/nosleep instead
TheBat@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
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TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
lmao wait what holy shit is that line originally from Arthur??? that sounds exactly like something the bunny dude would say