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Perhaps Sturgeon was right that 90% of everything is rubbish, but the speed with which fake content can be generated threatens to make 99.9% of everything rubbi
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Perhaps Sturgeon was right that 90% of everything is rubbish, but the
speed with which fake content can be generated threatens to make 99.9%
of everything rubbish.
There are several scenarios for this technology to escalate.
Back in the day it was fun to auto-respond to someone's mail
auto-responder. The winner was whoever had the biggest hard-drive to
hold a mail queue.
It is merely a matter of time before companies realise they can
replace people in PR, HR, customer service and other "public facing"
roles with GPT-like technologies. At the same time the public are
going to arm themselves with counter-technologies, as browser and mail
client plugins. There's obviously a "market" for job application bots,
auction bidding, ticket and holiday booking bots for scarce resources.
But these will get sophisticated in their attempts to trick human
users employed to filter and select.
Once the "battle of the bots" is underway we'll see a rapid increase
in essentially deceptive, nonsense traffic swamping systems. Real
human activity may become impossible to discern in that digital
environment.