We have a Problem Here Folks. AI imitating humans here in this place.

I just thought I would resurrect this, just for a moment......to give a quick update.......it has been 3 weeks of research.

My heart is hardening to the fact that WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE FOLKS.

Some of you may have noticed that I make (even weirder and more obscure than my normal) responses to some "people" who post here, in certain circumstances.  I do this to try and understand / probe my hypothesis that there is A LOT of AI / bots floating around in this place.

My interim conclusion is that there is, definitely, A LOT of AI / bots posts floating around in this place.  Presumably, this is therefore the case EVERYWHERE.

Generally, I get the impression that many people don't really care, one way or the other.....but I do.  If it is happening here in this relatively unimportant "backwater" place, then it must be absolutely rife in places where opinions are formed en mass.

All is not what it seems in the world.....all I ask, is that WE all remain aware of that fact.  "Jeremy for Leeds" is just as likely to be 0010010110000101010001110, operated by "Polling Corp Inc", let loose upon us to do whatever "Polling Corp Inc" hopes it will do.

Human rule is not necessarily brilliant (at all)........but an AI army serving the bidding of just a few humans, is defo worse.....in my opinion.

I just thought I would resurrect this, just for a moment......to give a quick update.......it has been 3 weeks of research.

My heart is hardening to the fact that WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE FOLKS.

Some of you may have noticed that I make (even weirder and more obscure than my normal) responses to some "people" who post here, in certain circumstances.  I do this to try and understand / probe my hypothesis that there is A LOT of AI / bots floating around in this place.

My interim conclusion is that there is, definitely, A LOT of AI / bots posts floating around in this place.  Presumably, this is therefore the case EVERYWHERE.

Generally, I get the impression that many people don't really care, one way or the other.....but I do.  If it is happening here in this relatively unimportant "backwater" place, then it must be absolutely rife in places where opinions are formed en mass.

All is not what it seems in the world.....all I ask, is that WE all remain aware of that fact.  "Jeremy for Leeds" is just as likely to be 0010010110000101010001110, operated by "Polling Corp Inc", let loose upon us to do whatever "Polling Corp Inc" hopes it will do.

Human rule is not necessarily brilliant (at all)........but an AI army serving the bidding of just a few humans, is defo worse.....in my opinion.

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Jeremy for Leeds" is just as likely to be 0010010110000101010001110,

That's true, unfortunately. I don't like it either, and am surprised by how prevalent I now consider AI profiles to be here.

It took me a while to work it out, butit was the last thing I was thinking about when I joined.

I covered a lesson before half term, a rare occurrence, but anyway- it just entailed the class watching a video about the rise of AI in the workplace and how, or if, world Labour markets could adapt. 

What struck me was a popular blog, which, it turns out, is written by AI, although that wasn't initially advertised when it began.  Honestly, it read like a human had written it, I doubt most people would have realized ( and they did not, in fact) and I'm now aware that the time is probably upon us when we just won't know. 

Will this mean the end of online platforms such as this? Or will we just get better at spotting AI with ever more sophisticated tech? 

Certainly we will try, because AI now has the potential to compromise the integrity of everything we write.

I am a real person, whose morning break is now over

Still, I may value my job all the more, knowing that AI may well replace me in a small number of years. 

Frankenstein got nothing on AI...

This is why I no longer use twitter / X.

The majority of the posts there are automated in one way or another by people whose intentions are entirely bad.

I have seen far fewer suspicious posts here but those I have seen (including some you responded to) read like someone whose first language probably isn’t English and with motives that are hard to understand (although that latter point also applies to one or two difficult real human members of this forum).