It seems to correlate with the rise in general awareness of LLMs like ChatGPT. It seems like just the threat/possibility of ChatGPT being used has already distorted discourse online.
I always saw it as someone who only repeats talking points verbatim is essentially a robot. If I can’t tell if you are a human posting, or an automated response is there a meaningful difference?
Not just bad behavior, if anyone disagrees with someone on Reddit now they accuse the other person of being a bot.
Even for opinions you would hear people say in person frequently, the only explanation for seeing it online is “bot” now.
It seems to correlate with the rise in general awareness of LLMs like ChatGPT. It seems like just the threat/possibility of ChatGPT being used has already distorted discourse online.
I always saw it as someone who only repeats talking points verbatim is essentially a robot. If I can’t tell if you are a human posting, or an automated response is there a meaningful difference?
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Real people repeat talking points all the time.
It’s trivial to use a prompt to avoid cliches, or to give a long nuanced answer.
Just like CAPTCHAs, using this strategy to tell real people from bots will fail more than it works.