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How do we know that everyone on the internet isn't just a bot?

I mean, there might be a secret AI technology that is so advanced to the point that it can mimic a real human, make posts and comments that looks like its written by a human and even intentionally doing speling mistakes to simulate human errors. How do we know that such AI hasn’t already infiltrated the internet and everything that you see is posted by this AI? If such AI actually exists, it’s probably so advanced that it almost never fails barring rare situations where there is an unexpected errrrrrrrrrorrrrrrrrrrr…

[Error: The program “Human_Simulation_AI” is unresponsive]

Aceticon ,

That’s just a variant of the ages old Philosophy question “What is real?”

Last I checked the best answer there was is “I think therefore I am” (Descartes), which is quite old and doesn’t even deal with the whole “what am I”, much less with the existance or not of everything else.

“Is the Internet all AI but me” is actually pretty mild skepticism in this domain - I mean, how sure are your that your’re not some kind of advanced AI yourself who believes itself to be “human” or even that the whole “human” concept is at all real and not just part of an advanced universe simulation with “generative simulated organic life” inv which various AIs which are unaware of their AI status, such as yourself, participate?

Or maybe you’re just one of the brains of a 5-dimensional hyper intelligence and “life as a human” is but a game they play for such minor brains to keep them occupied…

001100010010 OP ,
@001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Oh no… I’m a brain floating in space? What a terrible day of an existential crisis this will be, thanks, now I’m gonna wonder if life is even real.

puppy ,

Nice bait post, AI. We won’t reveal our tricks.

Chariotwheel ,

I've met some people from the internet and confirmed their humanity.

MajorHavoc ,

That’s exactly what a bot would say, though…

Atheran ,

That’s a leap if I ever saw one. I could ask the same question and substitute AI with god or aliens and I’d be ridiculed by the tech community and with good reason.

And you don’t need to take it much further to fall into the holographic universe principle or the simulation hypothesis and for those there are big discussions to be had in science communities.

To be clear, nothing stops you or me, or anyone for that matter from assuming so, but down that road the only answer I can think of is that nothing matters and might as well lay down and die.

curiosityLynx ,

Not just that, but you can go further and go with Boltzmann Brain. It's a philosophical dead end.

cantstopthesignal ,

Click this box for me before I answer that question

netvor ,
@netvor@lemmy.world avatar

We don’t.

loom_in_essence , (edited )

Classic e-solipsism

platysalty ,

Every day, real life drifts closer to a Metal Gear plot.

JayEchoRay ,
@JayEchoRay@lemmy.world avatar

I for one look forward to day that we are all free from the Patriot’s grasp

Hamartiogonic , (edited )
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz avatar

Look into the research of Large Language Models (LLMs). Even the latest and greatest model has some issues that come up under rigorous testing. For example, GPT-4 (the one used by Bing) fails miserably if you ask: “How many words will there be in your next answer?”

You can spot an older LLM by asking about relationships that require some understanding of the real world. For example: “I found a shirt under the car, but it was wet. Which one was wet?” GPT-4 knows enough about the world that it makes more sense if the shirt was wet, but older models would have failed this question. With every new LLM, there are always some issues, so look up what they are.

Tom Scott made an interesting video about what the situation was 3 years ago. Obviously, LLMs are a fast moving target right now, so that video aged like milk.

Zandt88 ,

Its all one simulation so we are all self aware bots that are yet unaware that we are simulation. AI just created AI.

TheFeatureCreature ,
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world avatar

Beep boop beep

nottheengineer ,

We don’t know and there’s basically no way to know for sure.

Welcome to the new internet.

RoyalEngineering ,

Yes I have thought this about Twitter and Reddit and other text based social media. I’m not 100% sure that the majority of traffic and posts have been “seeded” by AI.

My conspiracy theory is that these sites have a vested interest in driving traffic and appearing to have high engagement or participation rates for ad sales.

Text is easy to generate with AI and the sites have a ton existing posts to train models on. What do they have to lose?

ji59 ,

Here is great video about Dead internet theory which is exactly about most of the users being bots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WB5grLMXkU

skuxdeluxe ,

You described the philosophical notion of "solipsism". Philosophers have been pondering the question for centuries. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy has more: https://iep.utm.edu/solipsis/

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