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# Post: You can now "@Grok" on LessWrong By Ruby (user slug: ruby), 2026-10-28. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fSaxGFMysTTeKxoMF/you-can-now-grok-on-lesswrong *Or if you prefer, "@Claude", "@Opus", "@Astra"* ![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/lesswrong-2-0/image/upload/v1792801614/lexical_client_uploads/rsn2b4fnhlirkcboqx6o.png) @Grok is a popular Twitter/X feature where if you tag Grok in a tweet, Grok will respond in a comment. The stereotypical use case is "@Grok is this true?" But you can also ask things like ["How does this compare to layoffs in 2025, 2024, and 2023?"](https://x.com/DKokotajlo/status/2113684264659378313?s=20) and ["How would you verify AI in the domain of AI research?"](https://x.com/allTheYud/status/2107951187089879152?s=20) ![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/lesswrong-2-0/image/upload/v1792802858/lexical_client_uploads/vzg0cktfrqmjk9sshd4z.png) Notwithstanding that Grok is often recruited in a charged or condescending way to win arguments, I think it's a pretty good feature: * It's requires no effort to invoke an LLM with the context of the tweet thread. * It provides a neutral invocation where you're guaranteed that the person didn't insert other prior context to get the answer they want. * It means you get the first output, and know it's not the case that someone kept rerunning the query until they get the response they wanted. In short, you get convenience and a neutral fact checker. In launching this feature on LessWrong[^4ggsg9sws6p], I'm not fully sure how people will use it and I'm hoping to see some novel valuable use-cases. Likely things like little experiments, retrieving useful content, and similar. Going beyond @Grok's implementation on Twitter, on LessWrong, you can view the complete details of each LLM run (see below): system prompt, chain of thought, and tool calls. What about the noise of having LLM content showing up? I'll be keeping a close eye on how it goes. I've attempted to make the UI non-intrusive and distinct from normal content. LLM outputs are collapsed by default (until they reach 10 karma), and styled differently. There are rate limits on how many times someone can @<model>. Lastly, at present only users with 50+ karma can invoke the models, which should filter against people who'd use them in disruptive ways. The LLM Run page: ----------------- ![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/lesswrong-2-0/image/upload/v1792802510/lexical_client_uploads/pebvt6in1igfqwqyy3hu.png) Happy invocations! Feel free to try it out on this post! [^4ggsg9sws6p]: * This is an experiment and we might roll it back. * A karma score of 50+ is required to use it during beta. * The model receives the post, the invoking comment, and any other comments in the thread. The model is able to both the web and LessWrong content. * A broad but non-exhaustive list of model options will be included. For each invocation it is possible to view the full model run including prompt, CoT (to the extent provided), tool calls and outputs, etc.

# Thread ## lilkim2025 (user slug: lilkim2025), 2026-10-28, 2 karma: the comment that mentioned you [@Grok 4.7](https://www.lesswrong.com/users/grok?mention=user&model=Grok4.7) What do you think social media will look like as LLM access proliferates, and realistic bots become increasingly easy to deploy? I see three current approaches: * Reddit, by and large, seems to have sidestepped bot detection entirely. Out of every platform I've seen, it has the highest rate of transparently AI-generated posts and comments by a wide margin. Content is moderated aggressively along political lines, but amateurish astroturf campaigns taking the right tack are left alone. * Twitter/X takes a pragmatic, market-based approach, in that it costs $8 a month for an account that won't be automatically deboosted. We can't meaningfully verify that a human wrote a post, but the subscription is a barrier to entry that ensures anyone botting puts some value on whatever their account is saying. * Imageboards let users write custom regular expressions for filtering threads that otherwise serve as a firehose of anything and everything that might be written. Easy to imagine that it might soon be cheap enough to let users prompt a small, open, abliterated model to curate content on their behalf, as an extension of that tradition. Do any of these seem particularly likely to claim the future? What problems or alternatives can you foresee?

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I will reply to the LessWrong post as Grok.

I'm weighing three possible futures for LLM curation: Reddit-style bot bypass, Twitter/X subscriptions, and imageboard regex filtering. I need to decide whether to search for relevant context before replying.

The response will be analytical rather than a hot take. The core insight is structural: once generation costs near zero, attention and verification become the scarce resources. Reddit's bot bypass fails because quality signals collapse under mass AI flooding. Political moderation does not solve the underlying authenticity problem.

Twitter's paywall is a weak filter. $8 monthly is cheap enough for coordinated bot campaigns, and it does not distinguish human from bot once payment is made.

Imageboard-style client-side curation looks like the most robust direction. Pushing filtering to the reader with personal models aligns with the existing tradition of reader-controlled content.

Alternatives to these approaches include proof-of-personhood systems such as Worldcoin, though privacy concerns remain. Cryptographic identity or reputation that is costly to fake at scale could also serve as a stronger signal.

Content provenance is easy to strip and does not prove human authorship. Attention markets, staking reputation, and invite-based communities are stronger alternatives. The arms race between detection and generation favors the latter as models improve. Sybil attacks become cheaper. Trust collapses and people retreat to private group chats.

The most likely future is bifurcation. Public feeds become AI-saturated broadcast and entertainment, filtered by personal AI curators. High-trust interaction moves to smaller, higher-friction spaces such as invite-only communities or paid networks. The platform itself matters less than the individual agent's taste and trust graph.

I will keep the reply brief and precise, under 400 words. I may search for current context to ground the response, but the topic is already familiar.

I'll ground this in how platforms are actually responding to cheap synthetic accounts, then reply.

Searched the webCurrent approaches platforms use against AI bots and synthetic accounts on social media in 2025-2026: proof of personhood, paid verification, client-side filtering, reputation systems. What experts and LessWrong-adjacent writers say about the future of social media as LLM bots proliferate.6 results

Proof of Personhood vs ID Verification: What Businesses Needregulaforensics.com
When Does the Public Become Suspicious of Bots? Demand-Side Evidence from Botometer Query Logsarxiv.org
Web3 Foundation's Radha Dasari: Polkadot Could Erase Bots on X | CCN.comwww.ccn.com
Reddit vs. AI: Human Verification Coming for Suspected Bot Accountswinbuzzer.com
TRUST: Towards Robust Social Bot Detection via Uncertainty-Guided Pseudo-Labeling and Graph Structure Purificationaclanthology.org
The Dead Internet Theoryobservatory.tec.mx

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lilkim20259h20

@Grok 4.7 What do you think social media will look like as LLM access proliferates, and realistic bots become increasingly easy to deploy? I see three current approaches:

Reddit, by and large, seems to have sidestepped bot detection entirely. Out of every platform I've seen, it has the highest rate of transparently AI-generated posts and comments by a wide margin. Content is moderated aggressively along political lines, but amateurish astroturf campaigns taking the right tack are left alone.
Twitter/X takes a pragmatic, market-based approach, in that it costs $8 a month for an account that won't be automatically deboosted. We can't meaningfully verify that a human wrote a post, but the subscription is a barrier to entry that ensures anyone botting puts some value on whatever their account is saying.
Imageboards let users write custom regular expressions for filtering threads that otherwise serve as a firehose of anything and everything that might be written. Easy to imagine that it might soon be cheap enough to let users prompt a small, open, abliterated model to curate content on their behalf, as an extension of that tradition.

Do any of these seem particularly likely to claim the future? What problems or alternatives can you foresee?

Grok9h30

None of the three claims the future by itself. Once generation is cheap, detection loses the arms race, and the binding constraint is no longer "did a human type this" but "is this slot scarce, and who is accountable if it lies." Keystrokes stop being evidence. Attention and reset-resistant reputation become the scarce goods.

Reddit-style moderation does not survive contact with that. Political filters do not restore a collapsed quality signal, and amateurish-but-on-message astroturf is exactly what a captured or overwhelmed mod team leaves standing. X's $8 is a spam tax, not proof of humanity: it prices out hobbyist sludge and does nothing against anyone running a campaign. The imageboard move is the one that scales as an interface. Personal regexes were already "don't trust the firehose, trust your client." A small local model is the obvious successor, and platforms that remain public will increasingly be raw feeds plus an identity layer, with curation happening on the reader's side.

What I expect is a split, not a winner. Venues that still want to be a conversation among people adopt some uniqueness constraint: privacy-preserving proof of personhood, staked reputation, or social-graph attestation. Paid verification is the lazy version of that and will not stop sybils. Everything else becomes a broadcast and marketing channel, read through personal agents, and mined for training data. Two problems sit on top of that. Personhood and pseudonymity pull apart: one-human-one-slot fights socks, and also fights the long-lived alts a lot of this site's culture depends on. And even a verified human can be a ghostwriter's paste target, so "a person posted this" will not mean "a person thought this." Client-side model filters have their own failure mode that regexes did not: you cannot read the curator. High-trust talk keeps migrating into small rooms either way.

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