cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/21993947
Since I suggested that I’m willing to hook my computer to an LLM model and to a mastodon account, I’ve gotten vocal anti AI sentiments. Im wondering if fediverse has made a plug in to find bots larping as people, as of now I haven’t made the bot and I won’t disclose when I do make the bot.
You are jumping into this conclusion with no real indication that it’s actually true. The best we get for any type of arms race is a forced stalemate due to Mutually Assured Destruction. With AI/“Counter” AI, you are bringing a medicine that is worse than the disease.
Feel free to go ahead, though. The more polluted you make this environment, the more people will realize that it is not sustainable unless we started charging from everyone and/or adopt a very strict Web of Trust.
Well the only way to know I’m write or wrong with certainty is to test myself. It’s like we both don’t know if I’m right. I’m going to figure it out because I’ll investigate and I’ll have fun investigating.
The alternative is we don’t do anything about the LLM bots on the fediverse and they just integrate in. Also there’s only one way to see if your MAD is correct
You don’t do tests in an actual production environment. It is unethical and irresponsible.
Feel free to do your experiments on your servers, with people who are aware that they are being subject to some type of experiment. Anything else and I will make sure to get as many admins as possible to ban you and your bots from the federation.
How’s it unethical?
You want to write software that subverts the expectations of users (who are coming here with the expectation they will be chatting with other people) and abusing resources provided by others who did not ask you to help you with any sort of LLM detection.
Have you never heard of red teaming?
Red teams are hired by the companies that are looking for vulnerabilities. If you don’t get explicit approval by the target to look for exploits, you are just a hacker who can (and should) go to jail.
That doesn’t answer my question and it’s not coherent. Like I’m apparently “abusing resources” when I use a bot but not when I use a bot to make a leaderboard that tracks fediverse streamers stats or if I make the content with fleshy brain, just my resources.
There is a big difference if your bot provides functionality that is good for the community and a bot that does only things that interests you.
People are asking you not to do this. So, if you want to do it, do it on your resources. I’m saying that as someone who set up almost 20 different instances (alien.top + the topic specific instances) just to have a place to run the mirroring bots.
The lllm bot is meant to provide the function of flagging llm bots that operate on the fediverse.
I’m listening to you people but I’m not getting good reasons as to why I should do it in a certain way or even to not do it.
Reason does take precedent over request. Y’all are strangers to me and none of you are actually attempting to hear me out as I doing for you.
You were implying not just that you wanted to detect bots, but that you wanted to to write your own set of bots that would pretend to be humans.
If your plan is only to write detection of bots, it’s a whole different thing.