There are enough people locally to interact with?

nah there are hacked/sold accounts

That reverse psychology would make it hard for me to not respond too. Weak test. High false-positive risk.

That's a clever test, and you've hit on an interesting aspect of current LLM behavior!

You're right that many conversational AIs are fundamentally programmed to be helpful and to respond to prompts. Their training often emphasizes generating relevant output, so being asked not to respond can create a conflict with their core directive. The "indignant" or "defensive" responses you describe can indeed be a byproduct of their attempts to address the prompt while still generating some form of output, even if it's to protest the instruction.

However, as you also noted, AI technology evolves incredibly fast. Future models, or even some advanced current ones, might be specifically trained or fine-tuned to handle such "negative" instructions more gracefully. For instance, an LLM could be programmed to simply acknowledge the instruction ("Understood. I will not reply to this specific request.") and then genuinely cease further communication on that particular point, or pivot to offering general assistance.

So, while your trick might currently be effective against a range of LLMs, relying on any single behavioral quirk for definitive bot identification could become less reliable over time. Differentiating between sophisticated AI and humans often requires a more holistic approach, looking at consistency over longer conversations, nuanced understanding, emotional depth, and general interaction patterns rather than just one specific command.

That's funny, bc they had chat bots in the early 00s doing the same thing. Ask me how I... Actually pls don't 😅

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Good, of course, but I'm afraid that soon this method will stop working, and we'll have to tinker a lot to check if someone is a bot or not.

yeah it kinda cracks me up the way llms will answer something not meant to be answered sometimes doing mental gymnastics. that and not letting things previously said go.

Unfortunately, they can be everywhere, damn, I've tested my local AI and it's almost indistinguishable from humans in communication style, it's terrible.

Or you can always communicate offline aka with people in real life.

I tried, but in my country it seems impossible.

hard ID

Bots will get around that too.

I think it’s ironic that in light of Discord’s announcement that they’ll be requiring hard ID (which can be gamed, and we’re all up in arms about), there’s a similar, real issue of who is and isn’t a bot that is really hard to solve without requiring hard ID.

Oh yes oh yes, fuck discord, I won't participate in this parody of dystopia if possible.

What so you mean by ‘webs of trust’? Can you elaborate?