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The more I think about this, the less I agree with it. Think of all the online communication you've had. The good parts. The great but messy blog post that cha
by waboremo 4y ago
The more I think about this, the less I agree with it.
Think of all the online communication you've had. The good parts. The great but messy blog post that changed your mind about something. Communicating with someone on a social network only to share each other's work and establish a great working relationship. Talking to a friend in DMs sharing your pain. Getting feedback from a mentor. Having people tell you how amazing your art is or how it inspired them. The bad parts too. The negative comments from random people. Others mocking your tweet. People calling your HN comment idiotic.
All of these things affect us because we assume a person is behind them, and therefore their intent is clear. Without that, we devalue all communication to compensate. Like a more exaggerated effect of how we view likes on social media, where "20k likes" means nothing.
Truly believe we're only ok with it now because it's easy to tell what is AI generated, and they're mostly confined. When AI is creating videos on Twitter, creating threads on Reddit, posting blogs on their personal site to be shared to Mastodon, replying to other bots on HN... I'm not sure we'll feel that it's whether we can detect quality anymore.
There's also the differentiation theory where in order to separate human connection from bots, we'll do the opposite. We'll start incorporating prompt injections into everything we post, start purposefully being "low quality" because bots are trained against that. Now we're creating a very particular kind of societal mess.
- YetAnotherNick 4y agoI definitely don't agree with the GP but I don't agree with you either. Human could and absolutely become attached to non humans, ranging from dog to pen to house. And I believe humans might begin to develop deeper relationship with AI bots very soon.
- waboremo 4y agoI don't know. Part of why we anthropomorphize so much is because we can still feel the physical elements. We pet a dog, we live inside our homes, list goes on. When that is not possible, how does this change people and their valuation of online communication? Would you still love "Anne" when she's now rejected your 50th attempt to meet in person? Would you still reply to comments like mine if the default assumption wasn't "that's another human being I can persuade" and instead "that is a bot"? I'm sure in the long term that differentiation alone would change, you know androids and all that jazz - however in the meantime, we're going to be facing a tremendous shift in how we interact online.
- rcme 4y agoDogs are very precious things. As is a house. However, anytime we draw a line in the sand and say “this is the line that separates humanity from computers” we always seem to cross it.