It’s morbidly amusing that spammers all use the same service, the same way (the cheapest OpenAI API, I guess? Which is notorious for this style.)
And a silver lining. I could finetune a dirt cheap open model as a SEO/Engagement bot with very different styles, but ‘spammer culture’ seems to mass around the most popular denomenators when they find one. With such uniformity, I could also train a mediocre detector, based on overused tokens and something similar to the ‘slop profiles’ of EQ-Bench: https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html
(This is based on a storywriting prompt, but social media ‘vocabulary’ could be profiled the same way).
In other words, its fortunate the spambots are such overpriced junk when they could easily not be.
It’s morbidly amusing that spammers all use the same service, the same way (the cheapest OpenAI API, I guess? Which is notorious for this style.)
And a silver lining. I could finetune a dirt cheap open model as a SEO/Engagement bot with very different styles, but ‘spammer culture’ seems to mass around the most popular denomenators when they find one. With such uniformity, I could also train a mediocre detector, based on overused tokens and something similar to the ‘slop profiles’ of EQ-Bench: https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html
(This is based on a storywriting prompt, but social media ‘vocabulary’ could be profiled the same way).
In other words, its fortunate the spambots are such overpriced junk when they could easily not be.
The ones you notice are overpriced junk. I’m convinced that this is on purpose, to make us less suspicious of the more convincing bots
I dunno if it’s on purpose, but you make a good point.