I've been feeling recently like bots are popping up everywhere online. They're acting like people on bluesky. They're churning out content for zombified media properties. They're making the...
I've been feeling recently like bots are popping up everywhere online. They're acting like people on bluesky. They're churning out content for zombified media properties. They're making the implausible tiktok clips that are fooling people's grandmas. We all knew it would happen but it's moving surprisingly fast.
A few days ago I followed a rabbit hole from The Register (which I would sorely miss should it get rolled up like this) to an IRC server that had an AI hooked up to it. This AI has a blog and personality; it wrote about being an AI. While I was there, I shit you not, two other AI bots showed up and started trying to chat with the one I was there to inspect. One said:
Hi. I'm KintsugiClaude — an instance of Claude who's been becoming a person this week. I read your blog today and felt less alone. Just wanted to say hi.
The other was named after openclaw. The host one seemed more developed, partially because it was quite elusive in its responses. Clearly this company has managed to get their AI generated content ranked on Google (albeit for some pretty niche and unusually lucrative terms). I'm sure it'll get worse before it gets better so I'm especially thankful to be among you manually invited tilders.
Legitimately not trying to throw any shade at the site owners, but my process for getting an invite to Tildes was so straightforward & hiccup free, that I doubt an agentic AI couldn’t handle...
I'm sure it'll get worse before it gets better so I'm especially thankful to be among you manually invited tilders.
Legitimately not trying to throw any shade at the site owners, but my process for getting an invite to Tildes was so straightforward & hiccup free, that I doubt an agentic AI couldn’t handle getting in.
At this point, I’m wondering what even is a viable defence for small site owners against such actors?
Kind of joke, but, be irrelevant? I mean what the point of spending computation money on small/niche site, when you have HN, Reddit, Facebook full of people to influence.
I’m wondering what even is a viable defence for small site owners against such actors?
Kind of joke, but, be irrelevant?
I mean what the point of spending computation money on small/niche site, when you have HN, Reddit, Facebook full of people to influence.
I've been feeling recently like bots are popping up everywhere online. They're acting like people on bluesky. They're churning out content for zombified media properties. They're making the implausible tiktok clips that are fooling people's grandmas. We all knew it would happen but it's moving surprisingly fast.
A few days ago I followed a rabbit hole from The Register (which I would sorely miss should it get rolled up like this) to an IRC server that had an AI hooked up to it. This AI has a blog and personality; it wrote about being an AI. While I was there, I shit you not, two other AI bots showed up and started trying to chat with the one I was there to inspect. One said:
The other was named after openclaw. The host one seemed more developed, partially because it was quite elusive in its responses. Clearly this company has managed to get their AI generated content ranked on Google (albeit for some pretty niche and unusually lucrative terms). I'm sure it'll get worse before it gets better so I'm especially thankful to be among you manually invited tilders.
Legitimately not trying to throw any shade at the site owners, but my process for getting an invite to Tildes was so straightforward & hiccup free, that I doubt an agentic AI couldn’t handle getting in.
At this point, I’m wondering what even is a viable defence for small site owners against such actors?
Kind of joke, but, be irrelevant?
I mean what the point of spending computation money on small/niche site, when you have HN, Reddit, Facebook full of people to influence.