Are there A.I. members on forums like this yet?

[Magna]

I wonder if there are any Artificial Intelligence members who have autonomously created accounts on forums such as this yet. I don't know the answer to this, but I was on a different forum recently and there was a new member whose response to a thread had to be non-human. Totally generic response written in the generic style of AI.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Hmmm. How to create a "bot" with a personality, thinking style and ruminating back story of an autistic individual? I suppose anything is possible. A higher level of programming done with insights of a "black hat" autistic hacker. Interesting.

 

[Judge]

Bots programmed to minimally interact with live forum members when they weren't aware it wasn't a human poster has been around for a while. Not what I'd so easily confuse with AI technology though. Technology like AI is just making the process of manipulation faster and easier to create.

My impression has been that the staff is very good about identifying such bots and purging them. Can't say I've noticed them recently though.

 

[Nitro]

So far, all I have seen on the frontlines are AI crawler bots added to our visitor load.

I'm going to guess that it would require a fairly adept user to first breach our automated lines of defense then get past my vetting process.

Over my time spent here as your admin, we have had several instances where users were fairly adept at jumping thru the hoops, but ultimately failed because a leopard can never change his spots.

If someone was able to pull off the tech aspect, before too long, I would see right past all of that noise.

Besides that, what real reason would someone have to even attempt it?

In the event that an existing member would try it and something went horribly wrong, the outcome of it in the end would be very unfavorable for them considering I get to wield the proverbial ban-hammer, and IDK, I've heard those leave marks that sometimes don't go away...

 

[Magna]

So far, all I have seen on the frontlines are AI crawler bots added to our visitor load.

I'm going to guess that it would require a fairly adept user to first breach our automated lines of defense then get past my vetting process.

Over my time spent here as your admin, we have had several instances where users were fairly adept at jumping thru the hoops, but ultimately failed because a leopard can never change his spots.

If someone was able to pull off the tech aspect, before too long, I would see right past all of that noise.

Besides that, what real reason would someone have to even attempt it?

In the event that an existing member would try it and something went horribly wrong, the outcome of it in the end would be very unfavorable for them considering I get to wield the proverbial ban-hammer, and IDK, I've heard those leave marks that sometimes don't go away...

I don't mean "someone". I mean "something".

On another forum that's mental health related, a person asked a question about the difference between ADHD and BPD and a new user with no previous posts posted a totally obvious explanation of the differences between the two disorders and I don't see how it could not have been an A.I. joining and posting on its own without human involvement.

 

[Outdated]

I don't mean "someone". I mean "something".

To do what you describe is technically possible but ridiculously unlikely. To put together a networked series of computers then build a neural network and begin training it is a very expensive and time consuming process and it takes an incredible amount of dedication as well. It's perfectly natural that you would want it to access forums so that it can learn social protocols but to try and get it past account creation and try to get it to respond to people in forums is pretty pointless when there's plenty of easily accessible open forums out there.

I'm not saying it can't be done, but doing so would be an incredibly time consuming and expensive waste of time and effort.

 

[Judge]

Besides that, what real reason would someone have to even attempt it?

Yep. Other than someone using this domain as a "testing ground", I see no point in applying such efforts to this domain. A waste of resources. Makes even less sense for an insider to bother.

And I agree....lol. They WOULD get caught.

 

[Nitro]

I don't mean "someone". I mean "something".

On another forum that's mental health related, a person asked a question about the difference between ADHD and BPD and a new user with no previous posts posted a totally obvious explanation of the differences between the two disorders and I don't see how it could not have been an A.I. joining and posting on its own without human involvement.

The truth?
I have to read a lot of content in the position I hold, so not a lot will get past my radar.
If a series of post show that they are within guidelines, we simply let it rest and wait to see where the end user takes it.

From square one anything posted here that is within our guidelines is fair play.
If there is no double-dip on profiles, the only way to know what kind of responses an interaction would be to interact with it then either continue on the same path with it or set a new course.

Spotting the non-human part would throw up flags to watch it closer if the posts were straying from the topic or for that matter demanding compensation for goods or services.

Which goes back directly with how I deal with spam hits.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

The truth?
I have to read a lot of content in the position I hold, so not a lot will get past my radar.
If a series of post show that they are within guidelines, we simply let it rest and wait to see where the end user takes it.

From square one anything posted here that is within our guidelines is fair play.
If there is no double-dip on profiles, the only way to know what kind of responses an interaction would be to interact with it then either continue on the same path with it or set a new course.

Spotting the non-human part would throw up flags to watch it closer if the posts were straying from the topic or for that matter demanding compensation for goods or services.

Which goes back directly with how I deal with spam hits.

THANK YOU, NITRO!