Is anyone else reading threads now thinking this reads like an AI bot?

[EvangelicalAboutButteredToast]

I'm honestly not a conspiracy theorist but I’m reading recent threads on Active and they just read like ChatGPT has written them. There is something off about them. It’s like some new level trolling is going on.

if it’s just me I will accept it as I refuse to engage with them anyway.

But if it is AI, surely there's a person behind it asking the AI to create a fake post and to me, this isn't any different to people who in the past would have made posts up for their own entertainment, it's just getting ChatGPT to write it instead of making it up themselves.

So my point is it's not really a new thing, just easier for people to do if their bored?

Or am I missing something?
By bots you seem to sugguest some bigger conspirarcy by bigger entity with mal intent??

What would the point of that be?
Happy to be enlightened!

It is not - by any definition "AI".

The people hoping to make a lot of money from it are using it to train their LLM models to hoover up unimaginable amounts of context and language so as to appear "human" and thus "intelligent".

It's the computer equivalent of painting a trompe l'oeil wall with a cat and then expecting it to catch mice.

In the usual run of things it would be a mere distracting sideshow. But then you remember the queue of "geniuses" like Elon Must and Rishi Sunak who would quite happily let LLMs make decisions for them us with no oversight, and critically no transparency. Which won't be fun when you are rejected for a job (for example) and no one can tell you why.

Oh, I see. So it’s a bit like shoving your newborn in front of google and saying “learn how to be a human” instead of actually mothering them.

Sigh. I am beginning to loathe technology in so many new ways lately.

Well that's what they think.

In reality it's a bit of a circle jerk of very fast, very sophisticated (generally) pattern matching.

Ask ChatGPT a question and it will dissect the words, look at their relationships, compare it with the countless millions it has assimilated and generate an answer that corresponds best to that training. All the while understanding fuck all of it.

Now humans - for all we know - may be doing the same thing in a different way. We just don't know. And until we do, we can't say whether a machine can do it.

You really need to define "intelligence" before you can decide if you can have "artificial" variants of it.

Good luck with that, my friend.

Could be. I wonder about the threads where the OP never posts again after starting the thread. Seems strange because Mumsnet is all about engaging with other people. I can understand it if the OP just gets hammered with no sympathetic responses, but that doesn't happen that often. Sometimes other posters repeatedly ask questions in order to help give a meaningful response, and these are ignored too.

I don’t really know what the point of it is. I suppose if I was going to be really conspiratorial I might suggest it was generating clicks for the site and thus increasing traffic to the advertisers. Don’t know. I just know unless it reads like a human wrote it I’m not engaging.