Mount Nebo

[mike]

While we are on the subject, there is one other sockpuppet account that might want to spend the next 40 years or so in the wilderness. Let’s keep it to a limit of one per customer from now on, please.

We really appreciate this post

[JohnH]

While we are on the subject, there is one other sockpuppet account that might want to spend the next 40 years or so in the wilderness. Let’s keep it to a limit of one per customer from now on, please.

We really appreciate this post

Y'know, despite all my previous "investigations" this one totally flew under my radar.

[ken_sylvania]

We really appreciate this post

Y'know, despite all my previous "investigations" this one totally flew under my radar.

Now the question is who was running the thing...
I'd say "who was pulling the strings?" but it being a sock puppet any string pulling would have led to its unravelling.

[mike]

We really appreciate this post

Y'know, despite all my previous "investigations" this one totally flew under my radar.

Now the question is who was running the thing...
I'd say "who was pulling the strings?" but it being a sock puppet any string pulling would have led to its unravelling.

It's almost tempting to allow the bots and dupes and fake personas if they are at least a bit entertaining, like ole Mose here. The thread really cracks me up.

[Ernie]

I have not been able to learn a thing yet from this thread. Is there any seriousness or is it all jest?

[JohnH]

I have not been able to learn a thing yet from this thread. Is there any seriousness or is it all jest?

The account called "Moses" belongs to someone else who is a poster here. However, the "Moses" account's initial schtick was to pretend they were, well, the biblical figure Moses, mostly as a joke in response to an AI spambot that called itself "Aaron".

Since then, this account occasionally pops in and shares his/her opinion anonymously on a matter.

[Ernie]

I have not been able to learn a thing yet from this thread. Is there any seriousness or is it all jest?

The account called "Moses" belongs to someone else who is a poster here. However, the "Moses" account's initial schtick was to pretend they were, well, the biblical figure Moses, mostly as a joke in response to an AI spambot that called itself "Aaron".

Since then, this account occasionally pops in and shares his/her opinion anonymously on a matter.

Was the Aaron that posted back in 2020 a real person or an AI spambot.

[JohnH]

I have not been able to learn a thing yet from this thread. Is there any seriousness or is it all jest?

The account called "Moses" belongs to someone else who is a poster here. However, the "Moses" account's initial schtick was to pretend they were, well, the biblical figure Moses, mostly as a joke in response to an AI spambot that called itself "Aaron".

Since then, this account occasionally pops in and shares his/her opinion anonymously on a matter.

Was the Aaron that posted back in 2020 a real person or an AI spambot.

An AI spambot, and like many spambots, one I suspected was, said so publicly, and then had others get in an argument with me that I'm being mean, just like I've had to deal with with MaxPC/JohnL for years when I've doubted some of his more outlandish claims.

[Pelerin]

I have not been able to learn a thing yet from this thread. Is there any seriousness or is it all jest?

The account called "Moses" belongs to someone else who is a poster here. However, the "Moses" account's initial schtick was to pretend they were, well, the biblical figure Moses, mostly as a joke in response to an AI spambot that called itself "Aaron".

Since then, this account occasionally pops in and shares his/her opinion anonymously on a matter.

Was the Aaron that posted back in 2020 a real person or an AI spambot.

I recall thinking at the time that Aaron was someone's project playing around with that cutting edge new toy, GPT-3. Anybody want to confess?

[JohnH]

I recall thinking at the time that Aaron was someone's project playing around with that cutting edge new toy, GPT-3. Anybody want to confess?

I lost all doubt when it unleashed rather obvious referral link type of spam. There are myriads of such spam bots that exist who look for any phpBB site to register at and post to; I ran a phpBB tarpit for a while to see just how many of these I could get and ended up with tens of thousands of them.