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How is this any different from actual intelligent people that have a nefarious motive? For example someone like Alex Jones broadcasts nothing but fake news and
by qbasic_forever 4y ago
How is this any different from actual intelligent people that have a nefarious motive? For example someone like Alex Jones broadcasts nothing but fake news and misinformation in order to build a following and make money from it. This isn't new.
- eternalban 4y agoYeah, well now "Alex Jones" comes with your OS, is there when you search, when you work, when you schedule, when you chat, ... Is that really the same thing as Alex Jones? p.s. And then there is this (entirely different) aspect as well: > OK, I’ll tell you some of their names, and what I like to chat with them about. They are: Does Alex Jones know and remember and incorporate into a neural net every person who listens to his programs? And tell others ("my special trainers"?) all about it?
- jacquesm 4y agoIt isn't new in principle, but it is different in scale. It's a bit like junk mail: the occasional envelope isn't a problem, but once it reaches a scale where it drowns out your real mail it's a serious issue. Then you digitize the same concept and an entire medium becomes next to useless. "Quantity has a quality all its own" comes to mind (whoever said it first doesn't really matter). That is what this is about.
- ShredKazoo 4y agoThe smarter this chatbot becomes, the larger the de facto pool of "intelligent people that have a nefarious motive" gets. Take a common criminal, add a supersmart chatbot, what's the result going to be? We're lucky that education tends to bring empathy and foster prosocial attitudes. The supervillian trope of an intelligent person with an explicit nefarious motive is actually somewhat rare in real life. This chatbot could easily change things for the worse, if it doesn't understand right from wrong, and provides help to lowlife criminals.