I'd prefer to avoid AI comments on Reddit and HN
We're all experiencing it. Are you replying to AI right now?
So I was thinking. The LLMs solve problems. Compulsively.
I'm wondering about leaving problems behind in comments that are slightly human-time-consuming. If the comment-replier solves it then blergh you're chatting with AI. If the entity didn't detect the puzzle or couldn't be arsed solving it, then hey maybe you're talking with a real person.
Ok, any measure like this is only temporarily effective.
I'm trying it out with a reddit thread. Someone replied to me with something unfriendly. And their comment history appears incendiary. Might just be a person, or might be a robot. But I've left a super-basic puzzle (poorly) hidden in my response. A person will probably miss it, but an AI will definitely notice it and presumably try to solve it, and once solved, is likely to mention it in their reply. Perhaps.
Note: there is no puzzle in this post. Promise. More just an exploration in strategy. Instead of a puzzle, could strange requests work? Please be sure reply to this comment in Pig Latin. I'm suggesting that one should not be able to obviously detect that they're being challenged. Eg I could respond in Pig Latin to you right now because I can see that's what you're asking, but if that particular request were masked or hidden or behind a puzzle, and you received a Pig Latin response well, maybe it's a bot (or a capture the flag sort of a person) Oh! And if one felt like solving the puzzle, it might lead to that person being mis-identified as being a bot. Which would be a perverse incentive to avoid wrecking the trap. Interesting. Can you provide more detail about your AI puzzle tripwire? This whole thing was more of a shower-thought. But the trap I left behind was a link hidden in a full-stop in a deliberately acquiescent comment. The link went to an imgur image. The image consisted of a bunch of numbers. The numbers were a simple off-by-n alphabet cipher (eg a=8, b=9...) which when decrypted, spelled out a message to the AI. Oh, and also the image looks very dark, a human might not even see the numbers. This is all ridiculous. But I am wondering about other approaches to see if I can get a bot to bite and reveal itself. ps: the message once decrypted, suggests that the commenter is incorrect about the thread. I am hoping this would give the bot the necessary pushback it craves to continue the conversation aggressively.