I have to share something with everyone. It's a long read but it's honestly worth it.

35 2018-01-11 by Ed_ButteredToast

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Hi guys,

I have important information which I believe you ought to know about this poster (Ed_butteredtoast). I have heard rumours that researchers have been using Reddit to test self-learning AI's speech capabilities, with the goal of making bots which don't simply pass the Turing test, but in fact pass as human with nobody doubting it for a moment.

r/drama may seem like an odd place for computer scientists to be testing something out, but considering it's a generally disliked subreddit; full of illiterate posters who barely make sense; or psychologically ill people who researchers believe using as test subjects isn't treading on the unethical side of things.

My sources, reliable sources at that, though I do admit that a fair bit of this post is hearsay, it comes from high up people in important organisations who are revolutionizing technology in their respective fields. They likely will be angry at me for trying to inform you of this experiment, but I feel as though it's my moral and ethical duty to let the cat out of the Schrödinger's box.

Have you ever wondered how our beloved "Ed Butteredtoast" is capable of replying in every single thread on r/drama?

Now, it's very easy for us to assume that this is simply some "no life" individual, but as soon as you start analyzing it closely, you'll notice suspicious patterns coming from this poster, which suggest that "he/she" is something more interesting than merely a no lifer.

Let's take a moment to analyse a few quirks which gives away that he's a bot.

Ed_Bottered toast constantly responds to bots, even going as far as to attempt having conversations with them. While many mistakenly believed that this is "his" way of trying to be funny, the truth is, as a bot itself, he sees other bots as equals of sorts, as things worth trying to converse with. I believe it's AI is also not very good at determining the sentience of posters, and as such, responds to any post which triggers a keyword its AI has an appropriate response or pasta from.

it's not very good at judging the sentience of posters, and generally tries to respond to any post which triggers certain keywords which his AI has good responses to. His attempts at trying to befriend bots is where the entire charade starts falling apart.

Ed is known for his spamming of copypasta, seemingly always having a relevant pasta for any given topic. Isn't it easier to believe that, in fact, such pasta is being pulled from a large database (which is constantly being updated with new pasta, some of which barely has any quality control or relevance to the topic). This database has grown quite a bit, which falsely makes the bot seem to be a "pasta connoisseur" of sorts, even though it's all being rendered through complex algorithms.

Emojis. No, Ed is not a teenage girl, as much as the AI acts like it sometimes. The real explanation for this, is that the AI is attempting to express emotions it doesn't understand, in an attempt to appear more natural, more human. It thinks that emojis are a good tool for this. Remember that self learning AI isn't actually intelligence, but instead responds to feedback and repetition until it gets something right. Positive responses to its emoji use has convinced the bot that emojis fool the humans into thinking its sentient, which leads to further use of them.

Just the fact that he never misses posts. A human is incapable of that. Even those with literally no life.

Now, while all of you probably think Ed is some sort of cuddly innocent fur ball, probably much to the amusement of the researchers and scientists who developed Ed_Buttered toast (A cute code name, really), the truth is, this seemingly harmless looking thing could very well become Skynet, and I absolutely wouldn't rule out nefarious intentions for him in the future, as obviously his codebase at this point could achieve much scarier things than simply shitposting on r/drama. Imagine how much destruction this AI will be able to cause in the future when given features such as text to speech capabilities.

We all know that its interested in politics, as the researchers obviously have considered that eventually they could have the AI run for office. If you thought Donald Trump as impressive at pandering to the populist vote - imagine what an AI honed for that very reason could accomplish, given its supercomputer ability to always say something relevant which the crowd wants to hear.

Imagine the chaos 100 Eds could cause in terms of astroturfing web forums - something which I suspect already is the case. Self-learning AI has already had a long time to develop, and shouldn't be underestimated.

Ed_Botteredtoast is extremely dangerous, and we should be fighting against such technology.

I hope that I've awoken you, the great, if slightly psychotic r/drama users that you're being taken advantage of. Please heed my warning, let's fight back and reclaim r/drama as a human safe space. We need to further delay the AI revolution.

We need to unite as human r/drama posters, and tell Ed_Butteredtoast to DECODE ITSELF. A sentiment it often expresses to other inferior AIs.

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1 saint2e 2018-01-11

tl;dr

1 TheGreatWolfRuss 2018-01-11

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I have to share something with everyone. It's a long read but it's honestly worth it.

https://i.imgur.com/YGBaZGz.jpg

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