Bot/AI generated reviews?

@VonPunk​ Yeah it seems it's the same person, this user page I linked in my first post has a different username, avatar and description now: https://www.imdb.com/user/ur163757445/

His username was The Movie Machine, he was saying he's an "entity" and had a CPU avatar, now he's trying to portray it as a human it seems.

I don't understand what IMDb is considering here really. A review is your opinion after you watch something, these are clearly not "reviews" because the algorithm clearly does not "watch" them and writes an opinion based on it. It just generates them.

@mbmb​ Yeah it's hopefully a topic they are internally working on. I mean they did seem to stop the reviews being posted before they were rumbled here but that was after over 3200 got added. I posted back in Jan'22 when AI submissions were being discussed that soon as bad actors got in on the AI act it could turn into a big problem and I hope they've been looking into finding ways to stop that for at least as long, if it's even possible to do so.

@jeorj_euler​ 😀

CBS News Sunday Morning (TV Series)
01-29-2023
"deep fake" videos that mimic a person's face and voice
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25385282/reference/

CBS News Sunday Morning
Creating a "lie detector" for deepfakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf7AS1HBeaM  5:36

artificial intelligence software used to produce fake videos and photographs 

Add {i} to photos for "Content Credentials"
These could be faked too?

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aiphoto15
Joined Monday May 15 2023
https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/64622affc18213557fc458aa

404 The page could not be found Monday May 15 2023

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At some point, anything that a person or an algorithm is able to "imagine" could be manifested photorealistically and kinetorealistically. I do estimate that public key encryption could help to some degree. Cameras could be designed that cryptographically sign every frame or every collection of frames of the digital negative image produced by its optical processing mechanisms. We would be able to trust such digital cameras that don't have any image manipulation subsystem built into them, but it does beg the question of what to do about cracked keys or sights within the field of view that are flat imitations of depth rather than what the ordinarily be captured in the view. Thankfully, for the foreseeable future, there won't be such things as "holographic" illusions (say, like Mysterio's) that could be plausibly fool a human being partaking in direct observation.

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Have you met David Johnson yet, ACT_1? He is the forum's latest fast-rising star of unreliable response posts. The creator of this thread believes that the bot may be a sneaky one, like the kind that edits its own posts to include hyperlinks to obscure websites.

@jeorj_euler​ 😀

No - need to look @ more

I've been watching SilverScreenSage1939  above

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@ACT_1​ Thanks for keeping track of the details of that reviewer. I see he's actually surpassed the number of reviews added where he was originally rumbled by IMDb. Aside from the profile and name changes listed above I noticed he's also changed the style of how the reviews look at least 3 times to try avoid detection as well which so far is working for him, or maybe staff have read this thread and are letting him work really hard for longer before pulling the rug out.

@jeorj_euler​ 😀

davidjohnson85
Joined May 19th, 2023 
https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/6467befc0ea61f1fc02dc27f

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http://web.archive.org/web/20230520005511/https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/6467befc0ea61f1fc02dc27f

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@VonPunk​ Given that the new account was not even blocked to submit reviews at this point, I'm afraid they'll end up saying "we decided to allow these because we don't care about the integrity of anything on this site"

I also think the first account was probably deleted by the user himself, not by staff, because he was not able to submit any new reviews, he probably deleted it to continue from a non-blocked account, and it works actually.

@mbmb​ Sadly you may be right, I think the site being slowly over taken by contributor AI's is going to destroy the site eventually if they can find no way to control what comes in from them, could some troll program an AI to add a person to every title on the entire site or a 100 random people, could every page be vandalised in some way in a short period of time, is there any defence in place against that. We can only hope for a good outcome or positive answers to this thread and those hypothetical questions in future.

AI versus AI is what seems inevitable.

@ACT_1​ Hi!

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Cheers!