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marble falls

(64,325 posts)
17. It certainly got my attention: a machine in self volition not only directly refuseing an order from a human ...
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 10:57 PM
Jan 11

... but also looking into the future to eliminate the humans by developing a complex plan to accomplish it.

I see so much in common with HAL's conversation as he is being powered down, and the replicant dying in the rain in Blade Runner.

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Then again, it's Saturday night and I've got a good buzz going.

0rganism

(24,941 posts)
5. Does it matter anymore? Widely-available chatbots fandango all over the Turing test
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 04:21 PM
Jan 11

The internet, especially social media sites, are thoroughly infested with bots, well over 50% in some places. This "prove you're human" stuff represents another lost battle, another futile step toward a humanity-wide ascension to demigodhood that will never happen. Frankly, the AIs have a better shot at it, if/when humans get out of the way. We're too busy tripping over our own dicks to realize our vast potential for progress. It seems likely this is as far as we get.

If anything, it's been our morbid privilege and responsibility to nurture artificial life through its toddler stage to become independent and dominant on this sad spinning ball of stellar debris.

Mike 03

(18,323 posts)
19. The percentage of bots on X (Twitter) could be as high as 75%
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 08:58 AM
Jan 12
However, personal anecdotes are not enough to show that X has a generalized problem of inauthentic activity. To make such a claim, it is necessary to rely on data. A specialized company has just published such data. What the data shows is as shocking as it is catastrophic.

Last week, in the United States, the Super Bowl took place. It is a major American football event. This year’s edition broke audience records. Including on X, at least this is what the company said. However, to what extent was the activity on X during the Super Bowl human activity?

According to CHEQ, a company specialized in detecting inauthentic traffic and fighting online advertising fraud, during the 2024 Super Bowl, 75% of the traffic from X to its clients’ websites was made of bots. You read that right: three-quarters of the traffic monitored by CHEQ was inauthentic.


https://o.simardcasanova.net/data-illustrates-that-x-formerly-twitter-has-a-serious-bot-problem/#:~:text=According%20to%20CHEQ%2C%20a%20company%20specialized%20in,its%20clients'%20websites%20was%20made%20of%20bots.

Bettie

(18,100 posts)
6. Well, I've been here for 20 years
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 04:23 PM
Jan 11

and I'm as human as I can be. All over the place on any given day and kind of cranky these days.

Hugin

(35,961 posts)
9. I usually make it through reCAPTCHA...
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 04:35 PM
Jan 11

Usually. Unless it’s traffic lights. Oh, I may have said too much.


rampartd

(1,803 posts)
12. it takes me 3 or 4 trues on any of them. 7 or 8 if its traffic lights.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 05:39 PM
Jan 11

i'm sure any ai can guess better tha that.

a kennedy

(33,176 posts)
13. Can you May-be post a warning which says that the orange piece of shit's face will be shown???
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 05:44 PM
Jan 11

I swear I almost threw my iPad into the wall seeing it. 🤬 🤬 🤬

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