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While AI is not yet at a level where we need to worry about it harvesting us for batteries, I think there is still reason to worry. It's easy to think of ways t
by morinoandou 4y ago
While AI is not yet at a level where we need to worry about it harvesting us for batteries, I think there is still reason to worry. It's easy to think of ways that malicious or overly profit-driven actors could misuse AI for great harm. Internet forums are already full of shills and sock puppets, and chatbots seem likely make the problem much, much worse. Things like advertisers masquaraded as regular users subtly pushing for their own products, or even foreign states using AI chatbots to spread misinformation and mistrust among the populace, etc. Chatbots enable such manipulation efforts at previously unseen scales.
- brandon272 4y agoGiven the technology available as of today it seems like it would be fairly trivial to start deploying LLMs to post context-aware propaganda from entirely manufactured identities on internet forums and communities. At this point I am just assuming that there are parties actively working on this. In fact, I think the hard part of the whole thing would be trying to make the network traffic and source IPs look legitimate to the site owners/admins and it will be interesting to see how the battle unfolds to start authenticating content posted in communities as having come from an actual human.
- SuoDuanDao 4y agoIf you consider a corporation to be an AI that requires real-time training data from humans, AI is already harvesting us for batteries. I've heard the opinion that that's what the Matrix was actually about.