This was the weirdest thing I've seen today. These are only the ones I've spotted.

funnily enough, these bots are also replying to an obvious repost from another bot account. It's at the top right now! Beautiful

https://www.reddit.com/r/goodnews/comments/1p8dt2a/_/

tipping points:

  1. consuming so much AI content has led to me able to see subtle patterns
  2. They're all saying "exactly" and saying the same thing"
  3. their usernames are similar, flower/nature related, two words, no profile pictures
  4. All of their profiles have the exact same format of comments with the agreement, summary
  5. and they all have porn on their profile. oh

edit: tf?

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[–] 15 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Do LLMs always omit the period on their last sentence? Seems like that would be a dead giveaway

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  • [–] [S] 28 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    No, when it comes to LLMs there's hardly any "dead giveaways" now. You have to learn to recognize the patterns.

    Omitting the final punctuation is quite a common thing people do, in fact you did in your comment. It's probably just a part of the system prompt.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    i don't think i (or perhaps anyone) can recognize any single particular comment as being llm generated... but when the bots come in force it is still really easy. basically it boils down to this: many replies keep reiterating the same exact points in slightly different way with the same exact keywords. if you would use chatgpt to summarize each response you'd get basically the same thing from all bot replies.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I agree. I believe it's difficult for me—or anyone else—to pinpoint a specific comment as being generated by an LLM. However, when numerous bots are involved, the pattern becomes clear. Essentially, many responses end up repeating the same points, just phrased differently and using the same keywords. If you were to use ChatGPT to summarize each response, you'd essentially get a very similar outcome from all the bot-generated replies.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Think it's probably a bug in the script they're running. It's cleaning one character too many off the end.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Why would they cleaning characters of the end in the first place?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    LLMs ramble unless you stop them forcefully. That can lead to partial sentences that need to be cleaned up.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    That's not a problem inherent to LLMs, people building things with LLMs don't normally need to account for this.

    I can't say it never happens, but if you're using an appropriately trained LLM with an appropriate system prompt, this concern should be uncommon enough that trying to compensate for it with code will be more likely to introduce problems than just leaving it.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    You just explained how it is a problem inherent to most LLMs. Most spammers aren't able or willing to train a model.

    Every large hosted LLM drones on and on. It helps them land on the correct answer more often. And they always return to the mean of their training even with prompting. Try telling a model not to reply with "Sure thing!" or some other shit and it'll do it anyway. Far easier to just cut that shit out.

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