If you're on DU ...

[DoBW]

... please prove you are human

— AnnieForTruth (@anniefortruth1.bsky.social) 2025-01-11T11:14:03.214Z

[marble falls]

1. I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that ...

?si=qq3Q_cJ9MGMzlAoh

[surfered]

3. Good one

[DoBW]

16. I love that part ... nt

[marble falls]

17. It certainly got my attention: a machine in self volition not only directly refuseing an order from a human ...

... but also looking into the future to eliminate the humans by developing a complex plan to accomplish it.

I see so much in common with HAL's conversation as he is being powered down, and the replicant dying in the rain in Blade Runner.

?si=oXzLQzO7sTB6AhoI

?si=ok8WauC7i1zUaBrN



Then again, it's Saturday night and I've got a good buzz going.

[H2O Man]

2. No thank you.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Danger! Danger Will Robinson.

[0rganism]

5. Does it matter anymore? Widely-available chatbots fandango all over the Turing test

The internet, especially social media sites, are thoroughly infested with bots, well over 50% in some places. This "prove you're human" stuff represents another lost battle, another futile step toward a humanity-wide ascension to demigodhood that will never happen. Frankly, the AIs have a better shot at it, if/when humans get out of the way. We're too busy tripping over our own dicks to realize our vast potential for progress. It seems likely this is as far as we get.

If anything, it's been our morbid privilege and responsibility to nurture artificial life through its toddler stage to become independent and dominant on this sad spinning ball of stellar debris.

[Mike 03]

19. The percentage of bots on X (Twitter) could be as high as 75%

However, personal anecdotes are not enough to show that X has a generalized problem of inauthentic activity. To make such a claim, it is necessary to rely on data. A specialized company has just published such data. What the data shows is as shocking as it is catastrophic.

Last week, in the United States, the Super Bowl took place. It is a major American football event. This year’s edition broke audience records. Including on X, at least this is what the company said. However, to what extent was the activity on X during the Super Bowl human activity?

According to CHEQ, a company specialized in detecting inauthentic traffic and fighting online advertising fraud, during the 2024 Super Bowl, 75% of the traffic from X to its clients’ websites was made of bots. You read that right: three-quarters of the traffic monitored by CHEQ was inauthentic.

https://o.simardcasanova.net/data-illustrates-that-x-formerly-twitter-has-a-serious-bot-problem/#:~:text=According%20to%20CHEQ%2C%20a%20company%20specialized%20in,its%20clients'%20websites%20was%20made%20of%20bots.

[Bettie]

6. Well, I've been here for 20 years

and I'm as human as I can be. All over the place on any given day and kind of cranky these days.

[Iggo]

7. I prefer the term artificial person myself.

[sarisataka]

8. I have passed the Voight-Kampff test

Honest.

[Hugin]

9. I usually make it through reCAPTCHA...

Usually. Unless it’s traffic lights. Oh, I may have said too much.

[rampartd]

12. it takes me 3 or 4 trues on any of them. 7 or 8 if its traffic lights.

i'm sure any ai can guess better tha that.

[Hugin]

15. Crosswalks are tough too.

The Beatles are hard to see.

[Maeve]

10. Yeah, i reposted that one yesterday!

[Martin Eden]

11. I think, therefore ...

I am a Democrat.

[a kennedy]

13. Can you May-be post a warning which says that the orange piece of shit's face will be shown???

I swear I almost threw my iPad into the wall seeing it. 🤬 🤬 🤬

[allegorical oracle]

14. I'm not human. Worked on Capitol Hill. n/t

[SocialDemocrat61]

18. I'm an intelligent chimpanzee from the future

[Hugin]

20. You only have four fingers and a thumb...

You must be real and not artificial.