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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.

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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)

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