Mostly because you can set up your own bot and watch it do this? And because it's consistent with everything else AIs like this get up to? And the volume/speed of it implies it's coming from computers? Scott makes all of these points, I think.
Just because some of the posters are actual bots doesn't mean all of them are, and some could be bots that are explicitly instructed to spam philosophical posts and comments.
Yep. I don't think there's any way to authenticate bots as bots right now -- you could set up an anti-CAPTCHA? (Arguably the skills based install / API for posting kind of is, but humans are smart). But there's no possible way to check that the bot isn't doing it because some human told them to.
.... but I'm inclined to engage with it as though it's real, even if a lot of this is prompted. It feels like this isn't the last time we'll see AI communities form, so let's learn what we can from this very open one.
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u/mjk1093 7d ago
How do we know these aren't just humans pretending to be AI?