Reddit better hold their IPO soon or they'll get caught up in this. Pretty soon there will be dozens of different GPT/LLM-powered Reddit spam bots on Github. Some of them no doubt for political trolling. [1]

Phone, then ID-based verification is a stop gap, but IDV services will have to spin up to support the mass volume of verifying all humans.

[1] I kind of want to do this from an innocent / artistic perspective myself. Perhaps a bot that responds with a bunch of rhetorical questions or onomatopoeia. Then I'd scale it to the point people start noticing and feeling weirded out by it. "Is this the new Gen Alpha lingo?" Alas, I have too many other AI projects.

The Anti-AI\GPT-Detection will soon be a multi-billion dollar industry

And it'll silently remove your real posts too, faster than the horrible moderation on reddit ever could!

I just tried to find a FOSS tool for converting MS Outlook .pst file to .mbox.

I first tried Google; the results are dominating by commercial crap.

Then I tried the "google reddit" trick to try and find some real people's opinions... but look at all the blatantly bullshit comments on this Reddit thread; https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/ae4cdg/good_ps...

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(if anyone is wondering, the best option for Windows is to use 'readpst' command via WSL. Comes in the 'pst-utils' package).

So a GPT bot instead of the human commenters would make reddit more useful in the end, this is what you're saying right?

How so? The commercial organisations will be able to use a GPT bot to provide more believable comments, at greater scale, and cheaper.

I'm blind maybe, but what are the blatantly bullshit comments? The spam of PST to MBOX?

Yeah they are almost all clearly spammy, broken english ads for paid software

Yes and if you look at the comment history of the posters in that thread, it is clear they are all spam accounts.

If people see AI-generated comments on HN they should flag them and let us know at [email protected]. HN is for humans to converse, and bots have never been allowed.

Of course it's not always easy to say what's AI-generated or not. But if an account is making a habit of it, it still seems possible to tell.