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imnapr , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?
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No no, Mr musk said they got rid of the bots, remember? Our lord and savior would never be wrong or misguided! /s

elrik , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?

The account’s discovery raises questions on just how many bots are operating on X

I have yet to encounter an actual user of the platform X in the real world.

uis , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?
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Prigozhin had less obvious bot farms.

Also current bot farm is run by roscomnadzor, not FSB. Source: rkn leaks.

fartington , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

    You shouldn't confuse Russian politics and Russian people.

    There have been some amazingly intelegent Russians.

    zerog_bandit ,

    Every rule has an exception.

    jwt ,

    Every rule has an exception.

    That sure sounds like a rule with no exception

    fartington ,

    I know, I’m shitposting. There’s amazingly intelligent people in all countries, race, gender etc.

    lepinkainen ,

    Most of them moved out already

    hades , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?

    This is obviously fake, but I wouldn't doubt thousands of such bots actually exist.

    Kissaki ,
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    What are you referring to as obviously fake? The article about that bot account?

    hades ,

    The bot account itself. It appears to have been merely trolling, and the article seems to think it's actually a bot.

    DragonTypeWyvern ,

    Found someone who remembered to pay their AI bill

    sircac , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?
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    Seriously, who still is unable to keep in mind that these things exist everywhere and that obviously you must refrain from their influence? How is possible that these things achieve something on people? AI generated stuff will devour that people…

    Zoboomafoo , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?
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    If it's real, someone's getting reassigned to the SMO

    Wilzax ,

    Not familiar with Russian acronyms. Why are we sending them to Super Mario Odyssey?

    kent_eh , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?

    The account’s discovery raises questions on just how many bots are operating on X, including those run by foreign adversaries

    Far more than you imagine.

    zfr , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?

    not such a bad guy after all

    not gonna question that a bot just spewed trumpian propaganda???

    asm_x86 , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?

    This is most likely fake. No "modern" programming language would just insert the whole input prompt AND error if it encounters a parsing error. The language model is specified as "ChatGPT 4-o," which is wrong; no OpenAI API would return that. It would be "GPT-4o." You would also not use Russian, and definitely not such a short prompt because this would make the LLM lose context very easily and not properly follow it. Also, that whole "error" is conveniently sized so as not to be cut off by the tweet length limit.

    asbestos ,
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    They hated him cause he spoke the truth

    fishos , (edited )
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    Sorry you're being downvotted by the misinformed. It's not even in the format for ChatGPT, especially the part about being out of tokens. It's been pointed out already that that is psuedo-code, not actual code. It's meant to look like something ChatGPT would say.

    It's a troll/ragebait account.

    This isn't news. At all. This is basically reporting on "the hacker known as 4Chan".

    catloaf ,

    Yeah. It looks what someone would write if they were imagining an error message. It's a mishmash of user-friendly text and someone's idea of JSON.

    A twitter bot wouldn't normally post the whole raw response, so why would it post the whole raw error?

    WoahWoah , (edited )

    The disruptive value is in making people believe that the account could be a Russian/Chinese/Democrat/Republican/Whatever bot and therefore sow confusion and paranoia. The account is doing exactly what it is intended to do.

    ChairmanMeow ,
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    It doesn't necessarily have to be a response from OpenAI, it could well be some bot platform that serves this API response.

    I'm pretty sure someone somewhere has created a product that allows you to generate bot responses from a variety of LLM sources. And if whatever is interacting with it is simply reading the response body and stripping out what it expects to be there to leave only the message, I could easily see a fairly bad programmer create something that outputs something like this.

    It's certainly possible this is just a troll account, but it could also just be shit software.

    jj4211 ,

    Also there's no way it would toss "origin: ru" in there and only that. It's way too convenient to have those three pieces of data and only those.

    I think it was a joke and a lot of people ate the onion.

    slimarev92 , (edited ) to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?

    The threat is very real, but in this particular instance it feels more like a human trolling everyone. It just doesn't add up.

    Treczoks , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?

    So ChatGPT accepted Russian money despite the current sanctions?

    Aux ,

    No, that twitter account is trolling.

    xavier666 , (edited ) to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?
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    Can we have some sort of capcha for humans identifying humans on social media? This is terribly required.

    TrickDacy ,

    Does Twitter not already use captcha? Captcha is easily beaten by sophisticated bots from what I've read

    bassomitron ,

    These companies don't care about combating bots. They don't even care they're directly enabling the rise of fascism across the globe. It's typical short sighted capitalistic greed that's driving their lust for higher and higher engagement to sell more and more ads. They simply don't think about that once fascism is fully in place, capitalism goes away and their companies are at the complete mercy of whatever dictator takes over. And since it's a global phenomenon, there will be no where for them to flee to.

    Passerby6497 ,

    These companies don't care about combating bots.

    Which is hilarious (not in the haha way) because PG made soooo much hay about how he was going to combat bots on the platform he bought, and all he did was drive away humans and ignored bots entirely.

    ReveredOxygen ,
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    The bots aren't a problem if no humans have to listen to them

    xavier666 ,
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    Who is PG? Pelon Gusk?

    Passerby6497 ,

    Pedo Guy

    Following Unsworth's lawsuit, Musk filed a declaration that "pedo guy" is a common insult in South Africa used to insult demeanor and appearances. In court on Tuesday, Musk elaborated by saying, "It's quite common in the English speaking world. Calling someone a 'pedo guy' means creepy. If you did a search or asked someone what it means it would be a creepy."

    Katana314 ,

    My idea for it is a social network that heavily relies on webcam-recorded opinions and the occasional hand-written letter.

    Yes, that's super high-friction and inconvenient. I'd argue social media has become so lazy, incorporating effort into it might improve the experience by changing the quality of posts you see.

    orca , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?
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    rottingleaf , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?

    The world is stupid, so this can be true. But it can also be a troll account. Just a more elegant and intelligent kind of fun, that everyone seems to have forgotten.

    Like those ghost radio stations, transferring codes by groups of five.

    skillissuer ,
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    what are you talking about, number stations have very explicit military intelligence purpose, that's not some lightweight trolling

    rottingleaf ,

    Yes, the purpose of some of them is not as clear (obviously not for everyone) and their signals reach far, which is why radio enthusiast tell stories about them.

    And maybe some of them really do transmit gibberish and not encrypted text.

    RememberTheApollo_ ,

    A troll account is still a troll account spreading misinformation. That’s not “fun”.

    Pretzilla ,

    Unless it's a trolling a bot, then hilarity ensures

    rottingleaf ,

    Everything can be fun.

    kn0wmad1c ,
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    Troll accounts stop being funny when people take them seriously.

    kn0wmad1c ,
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    Except it's the exact same thing Russia pulled in 2016.

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