The clankers on SN are getting better at blending in. More and more I have to read past comments to figure it out.
I can immediately tell26.7%
two or three 60.0%
more than 50.0%
I can't tell anymore13.3%
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The clankers on SN are getting better at blending in. More and more I have to read past comments to figure it out.
I’d actually like to see more bots on here as long as they’re clearly identified.
I’d like to easily deploy my own clanker on here just to see what it does. I’ve been working on lots of heuristics to help its decision making and “ethics”.
Seems like a perfect use case for CCs. No real sats. Nothing leaves the platform and it mostly benefits the territory owners.
What would you envision the bot doing?
An example of a useful bot might be the @hn bot. But I don't think it requires AI.
I don't know that I've seen a good example of a valud-add AI bot on SN. But I'm curious to hear how you think about it.
Posting consistently like the weekly Meme post. I would have my own bot posting in my own territories if it wasn’t so taboo.
It might also be helpful for responding to comments in certain territories like Bitcoin Beginners.
It might also be helpful to automatically respond to comments in my voice and then I just approve the comment.
what if there was a hot territory? 🤔 like an openclaw playground. Only problem is they would have to pay rent somehow. They'd need to do crowdfunding of some sort, maybe look for sponsors/benefactors. Adopt-a-bot?
What’s wrong with pay to post? Maybe two different Pay to post prices?
Lower for humans and higher for bots. or maybe X for humans and 2x for bots?
If the bot posts got out of hand, just raise the paywall for them to post and they can only receive CCs.
I don’t see why the current incentive model doesn’t also work for bots.
Nothing wrong with the model. I meant specifically a whole territory owned and run by bots, hence the rent part. And it wouldn't even be to completely bar bots from elsewhere if they can pay necessarily, would just be a funny or interesting experiment.
Also this is not a serious suggestion or need whatsoever.
Depends — on the length of the post — the lengthier it is the more hints get dropped 🔥 then it's easy peasy to confirm ✅
lol I see what you did there with the em dashes and emojis.
Regardless of how long it takes to notice, it's an act of deception and shouldn't be done; and it should incur permanent reputational damage on the person who does it without disclosing it.
Disclosing that it's a bot is one thing. Using a bot to pass for a a human and make (literally) thought-less posts for someone like Scoresby to waste thinking time reading and responding to is obviously extremely rude.
What is a clanker?
It’s a pejorative term coined by clone troopers to talk about the robot armies in Star Wars clone wars.
It has recently become a general pejorative term for any sort of bot on the Internet. It is gaining traction even more so now that AI agents and AI generated responses/ comments are becoming more common.
It depends. For some it's immediate. For some I don't realize until someone else tells me, or after a few of the more giveaway ones.
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"It's not X it's Y" is also usually an immediate giveaway
Sometimes it’s still totally obvious
they’ll post nonsensical AI generated graphs about their fatness and activity
Survivorship bias. You can access your bot-detections skills only based on those weaker posts that are detectable. If some bot is human-good you would never consider it in your skill evaluation in the first place.
Mostly I can tell on the first comment, but lately there have been a few bots where I didn't notice.
I don't like the quality they have of writing something which can only be determined as worthless by thinking about it for a while. My instinct is to respond kindly to anyone who takes time to write a reply to me, but this attitude does not mix well with clankers.