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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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In the age of AI-spam, I now treat typos in webpages as a good sign (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I used to think typos meant that the author (and/or editor) hadn't checked what they wrote, so the article was likely poor quality and less trustworthy. Now I'm reassured that it's a human behind it and not a glorified word-prediction algorithm.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Somehow I can pretty easily tell AI by reading what they write. Motivation is what they're writing for is big, and depends on what they're saying. Chatgpt and shit won't go off like a Wikipedia styled description with some extra hallucination in their. Real people will throw in some dumb shit and start arguing with u

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I have a janitor.ai character that sounds like an average Redditor, since I just fed it average reddit posts as its personality.

It says stupid shit and makes spelling errors a lot, is incredibly pedantic and contrarian, etc. I don't know why I made it, but it's scary how real it is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what motivation would someone have to randomly run that

also you just added new information to the discussion that you personally did. Can an AI do that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It is an AI. It's a frontend for ChatGPT. All I did was coax the AI to behave in a specific way, which anyone else using these tools is capable of doing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

okay chatgpt, that's what you want me to believe anyways...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As an AI language model, it is impossible for me to convince you that I am a real human being. :P

Also re-reading the conversation, I think I misunderstood you previous comment's intent. If you were meaning if an AI could post comments on Lemmy naturally, like a real person could? Yeah... I don't see why not. You can make a bot that reads posts and outputs their own already. Just have an AI connected to it and it could act like any other user, and be virtually undetectable if trained well enough.