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Comment by chupapimunyenyo | Hacker News Reader

AI will ruin the internet and it will be extremely difficult to filter out bots, that's my prediction

My first initial reaction to ChatGPT was that people will join more and more verified private human communities. Example: Discord channels or private Whatsapp groups.

My second reaction was that the internet will need a protocol to verify that the user is indeed a human.

We had a "human" who turned out to be an AI bot on a Discord server...

Took us a while to see it though, its answers to every discussion were way too verbose and used unnecessarily complex language for the context.

It's still unknown whether it was a 100% bot or a human using an AI manually to embellish whatever they wanted to communicate.

Maybe it's simple embellishment, but maybe in some cases it'll be a non-native speaker using an LLM as a personal translator as a way to participate and fit into previously-inaccessible communities. Either way, even with current tools it won't be hard to evade detection; In your example they simply used an inadequate prompt or model.

Definitely in two years it'll be a breeze just to give an LLM instruction on how "you" would chat and set it loose on a chat server without most people noticing.

Discord messages are usually pretty short so it wouldn't need a super-long context either.

WorldCoin solves this despite it receiving near universal criticism (for usually wrong and misunderstood reasons)

It's already extremely difficult to filter out unwanted content with easy to spot identifiers. Almost all social media websites have this built into their designs.

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