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by chmod775 1272 days ago
> If you trained it on discord messages it would probably be indistinguishable from most discord users.

You might get an average of all discord users, or all discord users at once. Neither would seem like a real person.

For instance someone who is interested in and capable of talking about any topic will not look real. A normal discord user will not contribute to conversations they don't care about or know nothing about.
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ajuc 1272 days ago
After 10-messages-long discussion - probably (I'm not sure but let's say you're right). But you won't have 10-messages-long discussion with anybody if there's 1010 users and 10 of them are human.

AFAIR discord requires phone number, and that's the main reason spam isn't a problem, so maybe we're already there.

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chmod775 1271 days ago
> But you won't have 10-messages-long discussion with anybody if there's 1010 users and 10 of them are human.

In such a place it doesn't really matter whether anyone is real, does it? You're probably there to get a few laughs or something, not build relationships with people.

Though there's more serious places with real people. Off the top of my head there's two large discord servers I'm active in: One is to find people to play a certain video game with, the other is a community of developers who use somewhat niche technology and probe each other's brains for knowledge that often can't be found on the internet. In either community a chat bot would be immediately obvious.

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ajuc 1271 days ago
I'm using discord a lot, I'm on around 20 servers. Most of them are in the 10-50 users range and they are for specific purpose (like playing D&D or computer games, remote working in a small team, talking with a group of friends). These won't be affected cause they are invite-only.

Then there are 1000+ users open servers - usually for developing some open source projects or talking about $RANDOM_HOBBY. These would definitely be affected if not for the requirement of giving your phone number to access discord.

You can imagine the problems that 1000 bots posting proceduraly generated bug reports could cause :)

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contravariant 1271 days ago
It will probably look like a proper conversation until you start looking at the usernames.
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