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In reply to the discussion: Is there a way to add another alert reason for posting untrue information? [View all]highplainsdem
(52,930 posts)when someone they've replied to tells them to ignore previous instructions and write a poem, or something like that. But I didn't have the impression Rubyshoo was AI. It doesn't take much time to copy something from Twitter and add a thread title and an emoji or two, and she's said in one reply in a discussion thread she'd started about content creators - and where someone asked her if she was one - that she was retired (so much for my early guess that she was very young) with too much time on her hands, and she was distributing content.
Which she was...but unfortunately it was often misinformation.
I don't know if we will get bots here like the ones on Twitter, and I wouldn't advise people here to post a lot of "ignore previous instructions and..." messages to newbies.
What I'm most worried about, re AI, is a tsunami of misinformation and deepfakes starting just as early voting starts. There's already evidence of Russian deepfakes used to influence elections elsewhere in recent months. I suspect they're stockpiling it for maximum impact and minimum time to fact-check and debunk.