Posted online content misunderstood as bots?

[MROSS]

Is it possible that people on the Autism Spectrum are more likely to have their posted online content misunderstood as bots than NTs?

Is it possible that AI TECH is misunderstanding rules orientation in tasks (common with the Autism Spectrum) as a bot?

 

[FilterFreq]

Well, yeah. A lot of us use correct (or near-correct) punctuation, lists, markups and things like that on a regular basis. Nail all of them and your responses might look a little 'sus', as the young people say.

Personally, I feel a little 'robotic' at times, trying to mimic what the human experience is supposed to be like for neurotypicals, etc. Sadly, sometimes even a good chat with AI feels almost realistic to me, too. But often times, the nuances that AI misses are a little too 'out there', like words or phrases that sound alike to everyone on the planet, yet it has no idea because it has never heard them spoken. Things like that are the real dead giveaways, imo

 

[Judge]

It's possible. I suppose a lot of it may come down to one's writing style, or whether or not they are cutting and pasting large portions of their posts from other formal sources.

In an evolving business environment I was eventually taught to communicate in writing much like I would speak to someone face-to-face. Though I still recall my first days working under a very old veteran employee who instructed us to use very formal business English....like "Please be advised"....and "With reference to the captioned"....and so on.

 

[Misty Avich]

I'm too overemotional online to be mistaken as a bot.

 

[Lemon Zing]

Bots are a common issue on forums. It's a real problem on X too, as these users love to 'follow you' and are liking your posts randomly. But it's really suspicious.

 

[Jumpinbare]

As far as I know, I haven't been called a bot yet. I guess I would take it as a complement though, since it seems to be things like correct grammar, correct spelling, and large vocabulary that tend to get things flagged as AI generated.

 

[tree]

I wouldn't be happy to be mistaken for a bot producing content.
The writing level of AI generated material that I have seen is
relatively poor. Peculiar grammar mistakes and non sequiturs.

 

[Misty Avich]

I wouldn't be happy to be mistaken for a bot producing content.
The writing level of AI generated material that I have seen is
relatively poor. Peculiar grammar mistakes and non sequiturs.

For example, in the post I shared on my profile about Morrisons having a quieter hour, it said it was introduced in 2028 (it was actually introduced in 2018). That information was from AI.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Cool! They've implemented AI typos!

Now we'll never know who's real. real. real. real. real. who's real.

 

[tree]

U shure u doan mean "whose reel"??

 

[Judge]

I get frustrated just hearing the term "AI" used more often than before now. Technology has been around for a long time to accomplish any number of "digital hoaxes". However it still depends on who is implementing it and how it is being done, still from a perspective of "garbage in, garbage out".

In other words, don't confuse "AI" with any standards of technical perfection. At least not yet. Some forms of "AI" work better than others, as has been pointed out above.

 

[Judge]

Cool! They've implemented AI typos!

Now we'll never know who's real. real. real. real. real. who's real.

I can assure you, the staff here is well adept at identifying a bot versus a real person.

 

[Misty Avich]

I get frustrated just hearing the term "AI" used more often than before now. Technology has been around for a long time to accomplish any number of "digital hoaxes". However it still depends on who is implementing it and how it is being done, still from a perspective of "garbage in, garbage out".

In other words, don't confuse "AI" with any standards of technical perfection. At least not yet. Some forms of "AI" work better than others, as has been pointed out above.

Yes, I get fed up hearing AI everywhere too.

I used to think it said Al (L), like they were giving the internet a people's name or something.
My aunt thought it said A1.

 

[MROSS]

Glad to see a discussion-thread of being misunderstood as bots gaining traction.

I had asked why my recent post in an online fourm I made was misunderstood as a bot. Another poster "chimed-in" nad felt over 99 percent certain that I was not a bot. The poster who felt I was a bot (sure enough) mentioned that my writing as too formal, rules-orientetated - common styles with the Autism Spectrum.

RELATED: Often prompted for many CAPTCHA tests in response to Google searches. Are users on the Autism Spectrum more likely to be prompted for CAPTCHA tests than NT users?

 

[Judge]

RELATED: Often prompted for many CAPTHA tests in response to Google searches. Are users on the Autism Spectrum more likely to be prompted for CAPTHA tests than NT users?

I wouldn't take it personally. CAPTHA measures only objectively determine right or wrong responses, regardless of the neurology of a user. Usually to mitigate a flood of incoming traffic on the part of bots rather than human users. Otherwise their statistical data of who actually visits their site could be hopelessly skewed.

 

[Jumpinbare]

One of my life goals during my single-digit years was to save enough money to pay a scientist to turn me into a robot.

 

[Judge]

Funny as I just now remembered not more than a couple of days ago someone in the media testing an AI model got insulted by the AI itself with their query.

No telling what may come out of AI, except perhaps the perfection so many are expecting.

From a perceived oracle to another "average joe". Just a matter of programming.

Captain Kirk: "Khan, I'm laughing at the superior intellect."

 

[MROSS]

Glad to see a discussion-thread of being misunderstood as bots gaining traction.

I had asked why my recent post in an online fourm I made was misunderstood as a bot. Another poster "chimed-in" nad felt over 99 percent certain that I was not a bot. The poster who felt I was a bot (sure enough) mentioned that my writing as too formal, rules-orientetated - common styles with the Autism Spectrum.

RELATED: Often prompted for many CAPTHA tests in response to Google searches. Are users on the Autism Spectrum more likely to be prompted for CAPTHA tests than NT users?

Can being misunderstood as a bot encourage one to reassess their writing styles?

 

[Cryptid]

Someone on Reddit told me that he knows an article was written by an AI Bot when:

• There are no spelling or punctuation errors.
• Italics and bold are both used.
• Double quotation marks are used properly and frequently.
• Bullet points.
• Proper paragraph breaks.

When I asked questions like . . .

• What about professional writers (i.e., engineers, journalists, lawyers, novelists, technical writers, et cetera)?
• What about people whose primary language is not English, but who strive to communicate intelligently anyway?
• What about high-functioning Autistics, for many of whom a missing Oxford comma is a travesty that simply MUST be corrected?
• Do you really believe that a perfectly-written post simply cannot be written by a human, or have you never encountered a human IRL who could produce a perfectly-written article?

. . . my post containing those questions was almost immediately deleted.

Apparently, at least for Reddit users, yous gots ta dum doun yer langwaj soes tha mods dosnt labil yuo a bot an dleet yuor posts ya gotta evoid em-dashes too an punchushun cant be yused ether

 

[Tiffany Kate]

I know I get mistaken for an answering machine all the time.

Me (best cheerful yet professional phone voice): "Hello, ... company, Tiffany speaking."
Them: "........"
Them: "Oh! You're a real person! I was waiting for the beep!"

Edited to add: And until this moment, I'd never connected that to autism.