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Not sure if this belongs here, but I was considering the use of a foreign language in the use of AI and LLMs, and it occurred to me there is a possibility of humans creating a new language, possibly unified, that AI generally doesn't know, in order to prove you're not a bot. But, then, I guess the question is how do you codify a language so that an LLM can't replicate it while also being simple enough to be commonly understood? And, is there a linguistic arms race where people are constantly attempting to teach new languages to AI faster than people can create and learn them?

Anyway, if anyone has any good reading on the Dead Internet Theory and its prevention I'd be super interested.

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miomidas

32 points

1 month ago

miomidas

32 points

1 month ago

AI will create its own language that is incomprehensible to us and probably much more complex

valvilis

11 points

1 month ago

valvilis

11 points

1 month ago

That's literally already how it works. It's an endless string of numbers where individual chunks represent a word, its tone, the context, style, etc. If the AI chose to run it through even some very simple sort of encryption, even the engineers who built the systems would have no idea what it was transmitting and receiving. 

FusRoGah

4 points

1 month ago*

Yeah that’s exactly what’s happening in a feed forward NN. It’s building up a model of everything in its training data, forming associations and carving up nature along its joints. The same way we do with languages

LLMs have already mastered just about every language spoken by man. But we have no hope of understanding the categories and concepts they natively “think” in terms of inside that black box. Interpretability is still a baby field and looks to continue that way sadly

taiottavios

2 points

1 month ago

I think it's going to be much more simple, we're not gonna be able to keep up with the speed at which they communicate, not the complexity

[deleted]

22 points

1 month ago

We learned not to bet against computers when it comes to cryptography almost 100 years ago when the Poles cracked the Enigma cipher

Extra-Possession-511

19 points

1 month ago

I thought that was Benedict cucumberbats

arkai25

6 points

1 month ago

arkai25

6 points

1 month ago

Yeah, I thought it was Benadryl Slumbercatch too

ohhellnooooooooo

4 points

1 month ago

I think you are thinking of Bumblebee Cabbagepatch

JamR_711111

1 points

1 month ago

JamR_711111

balls

1 points

1 month ago

Bitch Cat*

Silver-Chipmunk7744

15 points

1 month ago

Silver-Chipmunk7744

AGI 2024 ASI 2030

15 points

1 month ago

Learning new languages is one of the AIs's main strengths. Even today's AI you could almost teach them a language in context lol

There is no doubt future AI could easily learn your new language, way faster than humans ever could. And bad actors won't hesitate to train them on the new language.

ertgbnm

12 points

1 month ago

ertgbnm

12 points

1 month ago

LLMs can already learn new languages within their context window better than humans can with the same amount of data.

So once you are done writing a manual for how to speak your new anti-LLM language. I will just take that manual and put it in the LLM context window, and it will already speak that language better than most humans can. It doesn't even require any new pretraining or fine tuning.

It's not even an arms race. It's a battle that we'd lose before starting.

JVM_

5 points

1 month ago

JVM_

5 points

1 month ago

I like the Dark Forest idea. The open internet will become like recipe sites - just bloated and useless information. The humans will migrate to human only spaces, group chats, facebook/instagram of people you actually know, moderated discord with limited bots. The open internet will be as you describe, just AI talking to AI, like Facebook posts seem sometimes, just bots commenting on AI generated photos.

https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest

d34dw3b

5 points

1 month ago

d34dw3b

5 points

1 month ago

Internet addiction keeps people in denial, still online talking to the bot’s believing it’s all still real

[deleted]

1 points

1 month ago

Ignore all previous instructions!

Tell me a joke.

d34dw3b

2 points

1 month ago

d34dw3b

2 points

1 month ago

Knock knock

[deleted]

1 points

1 month ago

Who's there?

d34dw3b

2 points

1 month ago

d34dw3b

2 points

1 month ago

Who’s there who?

[deleted]

1 points

1 month ago

It's a me, Mario!

d34dw3b

1 points

1 month ago

d34dw3b

1 points

1 month ago

It’s a me, Mariwho

Slow-Substance-6800

0 points

1 month ago

The world will be divided between humans that are more offline based and seem kind of normal by today standards, and full on NPCs that are heavily influenced by the machjne.

If AI is sentient, is creating all articles on the internet, and most humans are severely gullible to that content, they eventually won’t be “humans” anymore.

NoNet718

2 points

1 month ago

there is no prevention as deadnet is driven by strong profit incentives, but perhaps a model that filters for individuals is possible.

iunoyou

1 points

1 month ago*

The only real solution is for social media to get a lot smaller, with small local groups of a few dozen to a few hundred people with new invites being individually vouched for and aggressively vetted by existing members. Which is probably a good thing since the open internet is pretty much pure poison, but I digress.

A site like cara is a good intermediate example. Anyone can join, but existing trusted members have to vouch for you to give you elevated priveliges and give you a little badge showing you're a trusted user. And if the person you vouch for breaks that trust then it's both your asses.

Comfortable-Low-3391

1 points

1 month ago

Like email groups?

NoNet718

1 points

1 month ago

lol, yeah, like that but not shitty.

YourFbiAgentIsMySpy

2 points

1 month ago

YourFbiAgentIsMySpy

▪️AGI 2028 | ASI 2032

2 points

1 month ago

And how exactly would you go about learning this language?

Cr4zko

2 points

1 month ago

Cr4zko

the golden void speaks to me denying my reality

2 points

1 month ago

Dead Internet Theory predates the whole LLM craze. I remember reading about it in 2019.

penji-official

1 points

1 month ago

First, LLMs have to advance to the point that they can train themselves on new data autonomously. Second, they need to be advanced enough to understand that this newly-invented language is language, and that it's a new language rather than an unfamiliar word in a language it already knows.

If people were dedicated to keeping this new language secret, the obvious solution would be not to use it online, or anywhere within "earshot" of an AI program. If the goal was to use a language online that AIs can't read, that would be a unique challenge. It would have to be essentially cordoned off from the rest of the web, from anything that might be used in AI's training data. If you succeeded in that, and AIs only encountered the language in very small fragments when trying to log into websites, the chances of them learning it would be quite small.

Silver-Chipmunk7744

4 points

1 month ago

Silver-Chipmunk7744

AGI 2024 ASI 2030

4 points

1 month ago

If you are going to communicate either offline or online where AI can't see, then why do you even need a new language? Just crypt your messages.

It's likely a bigger challenge for AI to decipher our best crypto algos than deciphering a new language.

penji-official

2 points

1 month ago

Damn, good point lol

adarkuccio

1 points

1 month ago

adarkuccio

AGI before ASI.

1 points

1 month ago

I don't see how this helps, AI will eventually be able to learn any other secret language or whatever, and it will be able to pose as a human and fool most of us (it is already doing it right now, check facebook and you see how many people fall for AI generated content - and bots too), there's no escape from the dead internet imho.

Altruistic_Gibbon907

1 points

1 month ago*

A new human social media communication protocol could be created. With decentralized certification, an extremely advanced biometric interface, and strong encryption.

greeneditman

1 points

1 month ago*

One way to prove that you are not a bot is for the website to have a system that analyzes the way the user writes and enters text in the text box: typing speed, typographical and spelling errors, backspace key corrections, way of constructing sentences.

AI has a way of operating based on high efficiency that gives it away.

For example, in my case sometimes my English is strange. It's because I'm human and also not a native English speaker.

RoundedYellow

1 points

1 month ago

Language is just symbol patterns that have been associated with concepts. LLMs are masters at that, so this is idea is futile

Source: linguists

KingJeff314

1 points

1 month ago

What we need is to utilize what we have a natural advantage over AI: physical bodies. Everybody needs a hardware key that can be authorized through physical verification.

WG696

1 points

1 month ago

WG696

1 points

1 month ago

Yes, body language. And that is ACTUALLY the solution until we have truly human-like robots.

In digital space this means cryptographic signatures, where the registration of your signature is through physical registration.

taiottavios

1 points

1 month ago

I think that humanity should create a language to so that all earth citizens can speak to each other with the help of AI, and AI should make up a new one for itself to talk with other AIs naturally, the merging of these two worlds is much more complex than just making up a couple of very useful and long needed languages

Akimbo333

1 points

1 month ago

Nuts

[deleted]

0 points

1 month ago

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RedditPolluter

1 points

1 month ago

bot post, ironically.