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What have you found to be an effective way to tell if you're chatting with a bot or a real person? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by original_reader@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Sometimes it can be hard to tell if we're chatting with a bot or a real person online, especially as more and more companies turn to this seemingly cheap way of providing customer support. What are some strategies to expose AI?

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[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 34 points 1 year ago

You can always help their software QA by pasting in the entirety of the declaration of independence. A couple of things could happen. If they comment, why did you post that? You have a human. If they give a generic response, probably an AI. If it crashes then you know they didn't think anyone would post that.

You can also post zero width spaces. Generic chatbot will respond with something meaningless and a human might not even respond. You could also post text using typoglycemia. The language will confuse most models but can usually be read by people.