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asm_x86@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This is most likely fake. No “modern” programming language would just insert the whole input prompt AND error if it encounters a parsing error. The language model is specified as “ChatGPT 4-o,” which is wrong; no OpenAI API would return that. It would be “GPT-4o.” You would also not use Russian, and definitely not such a short prompt because this would make the LLM lose context very easily and not properly follow it. Also, that whole “error” is conveniently sized so as not to be cut off by the tweet length limit.

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fishos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s not even in the format for ChatGPT, especially the part about being out of tokens. It’s been pointed out already that that is psuedo-code, not actual code. It’s meant to look like something ChatGPT would say.

It’s a troll/ragebait account.

This isn’t news. At all. This is basically reporting on “the hacker known as 4Chan”.

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- catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah. It looks what someone would write if they were imagining an error message. It’s a mishmash of user-friendly text and someone’s idea of JSON.
  
  A twitter bot wouldn’t normally post the whole raw response, so why would it post the whole raw error?
  
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ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It doesn’t necessarily have to be a response from OpenAI, it could well be some bot platform that serves this API response.

I’m pretty sure someone somewhere has created a product that allows you to generate bot responses from a variety of LLM sources. And if whatever is interacting with it is simply reading the response body and stripping out what it expects to be there to leave only the message, I could easily see a fairly bad programmer create something that outputs something like this.

It’s certainly possible this is just a troll account, but it could also just be shit software.

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- catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is no API response.
  
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- fishos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “It’s probably not true, but you know, it COULD be true”.
  
  That’s exactly how they get you. Then the next time you see a story like this, all you think is “yeah, haven’t I heard something like this before” and confirm the new BS you’re being fed.
  
  This isn’t true. This is someone manipulating you. Like, the manipulation you’re afraid of? It’s right here.
  
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  - SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    But how do I know you aren’t manipulating me with what you’re saying?
    
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    fishos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You should doubt everything you hear. Pull it apart and see if the pieces themselves make any sense. Examine the logic and look for flaws in it that make the conclusion invalid. Ask questions.
    
    You SHOULD doubt me, absolutely. Hold everything up to the light. A very important question to ask is “why am I being told this? Who’s interests is served by telling me this?” Examine every piece.
    
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jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Also there’s no way it would toss “origin: ru” in there and only that. It’s way too convenient to have those three pieces of data and only those.

I think it was a joke and a lot of people ate the onion.

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asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They hated him cause he spoke the truth

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WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The disruptive value is in making people believe that and account could be a Russian/Chinese/Democrat/Republican/Whatever bot and therefore sow confusion and paranoia. The account is doing exactly what it is intended to do

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