Forum technical problems getting bad?

[steve1225]

Keep in mind the latest AI generated posts now look legit. Sometimes these automated bots post interesting questions, other times they provide assistance that seems valid. All the while, we humans are unaware that they aren't real people that need real help. None of this "helpful" activity is done to assist us.

Along with a lot of other reasons, these fake interactions allow them to improve their language models. Because the people operating these things have a long term goal that is not in our best interest. Letting them get away with it just means they get increasingly better at fooling us every day.

Unfortunately it is getting harder to detect them. I've heard that the majority of social media posts are now either human assisted AI, or fully automated AI. And now these AI actors are spreading to every forum they can get into.

I'm not AI. Or maybe I am. It's getting hard to know for sure.

it's not a problem of boots generating posts...

this is problem that now have thousands of AI startups creating own AI chats..

And for that they must feed the neural network with gigabytes of texts that have meaning and knowledge..

where they get that? they crawl the web and retrieve text from websites..

knowledge site (like wikipedia), newspapers and forums are best sources for texts for that AI chat bots..

so each of that AI startups, have crawlers which try to retrieve each page from each site.. and they slow downs now many websites..

ps. ipcamtalk.com (as many websites) are using cloudflare as proxy / CDN.
You don't connect with ipcamtalk.com server but with any of the thousands cloudflare proxy servers distributed over all world..
Real upcamtalk.com server is hidden (it's own IP is know for forum admins and cloud flare).

Cloudflare have services / features to blocks AI crawlers.. but they must be enabled in config page by forum/website admin...