Hey Gilbert,
When are gonna get us a Frankenstein ai for the Pub?
I have not laughed at a forum post from the dark side for a long time!
Thanks!!
On the other hand, be afraid, be VERY afraid..........
For those who don't lurk on the dark side, I am referring to this:
Brilliant…😆
I am happy to say that I have no plans to bring in any "Artificial Intelligence" to the pub. I've got enough analogue stupidity for everyone!
Although I was aware that he was being rolled out on a number of VS owned forums, when he first appeared I spam cleaned him which bans him and deletes all his posts. That lasted for about 4 days before I got a message saying that I should have left him and they had unbanned him and reinstated all his posts. They then offered to start a feedback thread so people could give their opinions but they hid it away in a art of the forum that nobody ever goes to. So I posted a link to it in the most used technical forums (P38, L320, L322 and L494). So far there are over 60 posts in it, not one in favour. One person asked him for Mahle part numbers for oil, pollen and air filters for his car. He gave the exact model, engine and year, Frank managed to get every single one wrong.
I wonder if it would be worth us adding L320 and L322 to here, we'd get an influx of new members once word got around. Considering Gilbertd got a lifetime ban from there for sending PM's to members suggesting they migrate over, I'm not sure how long I would last as Admin......
Sorry, it's up to 80 now. Including one in the AI business who has pointed out that they are in breach of a number of laws in Canada where the owners of the site are based.
Makes me wonder if the Maximus threads were an early prototype version of Frankie ?
Blimey Pete, I'm not the only one logged into both sites at the same time.
I'm wondering what to ask it next ?
Gilbertd wrote:
I wonder if it would be worth us adding L320 and L322 to here, we'd get an influx of new members once word got around. Considering Gilbertd got a lifetime ban from there for sending PM's to members suggesting they migrate over, I'm not sure how long I would last as Admin......
I wouldn't object but I wouldn't want to step on https://www.fullfatrr.com/ 's toes. I guess it's a different environment, the pub ;-)
You are probably right, although the L320 owners seem to be of a similar ilk to the P38 owners and will get stuck in and fix things.
If you want to invite some over, by all means do!
I’m not sure about the L320, but I may someday decide to acquire a L322. I don’t often post here, but I really like this forum (I read way more than I post) and would rather stay here than go to .net.
Wow! I just read the the link that Tom sent. Frankie is clearly a bot, but I’ve never seen one carry on for so long, making some sense, as long as you didn’t have much knowledge of what he was talking about.
The frustrating thing is that it has no hesitation and full confidence in it's absolutely bullshit responses. When corrected it just apologizes and answers the next question with the same confidence in it's answer. Absolutely not the right way to implement AI.
As well as being a Moderator (and founding member on here) I am Admin on rr.net. In the past when an obviously AI generated reply was made I would delete it. However this one is being rolled out over all 1200 Verticalscope owned forums by the owners and no amount of complaining by users that it is not wanted are making any difference. All VS owned forums have the same corporate style and layout, so are easily recognised. For that reason, whenever I have a question on something different and search for a forum, if I find one with the VS style and one written using open source forum software, I will always go for the latter.