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by simianwords 50 days ago
not really. there are easy heuristics to filter out bots with good confidence. FWIW i don't see any bots posting anything in my feed
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pixel_popping 50 days ago
Yes your individual feed isn't really relevant if we talk about the masses, Reddit accounts are for sale quite cheap, HN as well, X too and so-on, it's literally just a matter of means/methodology. If I want today to do 1000 random posts talking about a certain thing, I could.
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simianwords 50 days ago
my individual feed does matter because it shows that it is possible to curate something without bots which is obviously what XAI would do
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ninininino 50 days ago
congratulations, you have solved anti-scam. go make your billion since its easy.
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simianwords 50 days ago
its easy to solve at the offline level where you have time to filter out. in fact this is already done in pre-training by OpenAI and other companies.

you think its hard?

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ninininino 46 days ago
Yes I think it's hard.

OpenAI has already been proven to be easily gamed through very unsophisticated poisoning (fake information in a web page + an edit to a wiki page pointing at it, fake information in a reddit post), so I'm not sure we shoudl hold up their efforts at data cleaning as a gold standard.

https://www.sei.cmu.edu/blog/data-poisoning-in-ai-models-the...

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