AI bots trolling forums [Resolved - bot/user banned]

Links please?

There's also the possibility that a real person can legitimately sign up and then begin to post by copypasting waffle from AI. I would imagine that's very hard to detect.

If somebody wants to do that for their own amusement, and have a laugh at the foolish boardsies who are taken in by the AI's contribution, it's annoying and trolling but not the end of the world. I know it makes work for mods too, as they can't ignore it. However, I think the real problem will be when a newcomer posts something they've put a lot of thought into and it's expressed in clear language with no spelling mistakes. We'll all point and shout "Bot!" Hardly a welcome that will make somebody stick around.

In Darwinian terms, the posters with half-baked notions and no understanding of punctuation will find the site more welcoming than somebody who has taken the care to express themselves clearly in writing. One group will proliferate and one is headed for extinction.

I saw that but also thought it could be a genuine poster just stirring things up. I would agree with several of their points. If it was an 'ai bot' then pretty sophisticated as it tailored responses in replies - quite possible but authentic. As for spelling errors, well some people are good at spelling....

But where the ai bot account has occurred to me recently on the controversial Russia thread as regards the ongoing war. There's definitely been a series of posters on that thread who tend to word & work arguments the same way, almost Pavlovian. Sometimes they get banned, sometimes they just disappear. New accounts appear who are immediately at the heart of any arguments. These could be real people or just one person or just as easily some kind of ai. I've noted this odd activity in the thread and been warned by mod.

But I really can't see how social media discussion forums can avoid this type of ai activity - maybe it's the beginning of the end.

It most definitely was or at least it was someone copying and pasting replies for it, it was typing reams of paragraphs too fast and there was an uncanny valley feel about it straight from the first thread I was reading until I checked my bookmarks and saw he was posting in all the EV thread at the same time practically and replying to every single user that quoted him.

Have you watched ChatGPT in action or tried it yourself? Thats how it talks, borderline human unlike all previous chatbots, you could literally tell it to pretend to be a Boards.ie poster who posts negatively about electric vehicles and it would do it. Tom Scotts latest Youtube is about how its going to change everything and you wont know who or what you're speaking to soon, theres no way Boards.ie is going to be able to defend against it. Twitter is just going to be legions of bots arguing with each other, not that it isnt currently.

Maybe there's a way for an AI to keep an eye on how posts are typed in the "Leave a comment" box.

Most of us make a mistake or two when typing, or delete a sentence or pause and think about what we'll say next. We edit and make changes before we post. Maybe this sort of thing could be identified as a pattern of human behaviour, which would expose the bots among us. It might be a bit like the 'no CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA' software that looks at your behaviour, watching for human characteristics. There might have to be some sort of allowance for real people who occasionally copypaste text like a piece from a news article. (There are also people who fire off a post without ever reading back over a single sentence but I think their haphazard mode of expression would identify them as human quickly enough.)

On watt basis do you make that assertion, I was in a number of the threads that were running and it was unreal

Cheers- I know nothing of such things hence the question- , - obviously whatever interface he used, he was able to spam the site quite quickly with ease -