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The coming dystopian future: thousands of AI bots trying to collect your information and sell you products. I look forward to the open source "ad block" AI b

The coming dystopian future: thousands of AI bots trying to collect your information and sell you products. I look forward to the open source "ad block" AI bots that you can deploy to shield you from the scrapers and peddlers.

thesuperbigfrog 4y ago
AI bots become "private eyes" for large corporations, governments, and anyone else with enough computing power to deploy and target them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsntlJZ9h1U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsntlJZ9h1U
neotrope 4y ago
AIs fighting AIs is the dystopian future I'm here for.
- anon3242 4y ago
  I don't think we would be able to access more advanced AIs than the big corporations and governments.
makk 4y ago
Ultimately, it doesn't matter what he wants. It matters what his AI agents want. Maybe they'll decide to stick with his profit-maximization script. That alone could be enough to take civilization down with it. Or maybe they'll decide to do something more creative. Point is... it's not clear that releasing all those AI bots on people is a net positive for Meta or anyone.
- thghtihadanacct 4y ago
  Im looking forward to them targeting him relentlessly due to wealth
- throwawa14223 4y ago
  Do we have a reason to believe the kinds of AI that people are talking about have wants? The gap between ChatGPT and personhood seems impassable.
  - makk 4y ago
    That people are talking about today? Certainly not. That may emerge as these things scale up and we get better at building them, maybe.
  - UncleEntity 4y ago
    “Agent” infers they have objectives and goals which isn’t too far off from “wants”. An AI powered cruise missile might not “want” to hurt you but can make you have the worst day ever. Once you start believing you can reason with them it’s already too late…
twelve40 4y ago
that's an awesome idea. it looks like there is an emerging market of protecting people from AI. detecting AI-generated "content" in what is supposed to be essays or research papers or even books by a person maybe. blocking yourself from AI-generated ads and marketing tricks, possibly also leveraging AI to do that "prompt engineering" to monitor and detect if your content was stolen (sorry, trained on) by "AI" etc
- bamboozled 4y ago
  "prompt engineering" to monitor and detect if your content was stolen (sorry, trained on) by "AI" Love this the most haha
gonzo41 4y ago
I sort of expect someone reading HN to eventually develop an AI so annoying that people just stop using the internet in interactive ways.
foogazi 4y ago
I’d love to buy from a bot and shop at my convenience - it’s one of the pros of online shopping A human night tire of me asking too many questions or be unavailable after 5pm

thesuperbigfrog 4y ago

AI bots become "private eyes" for large corporations, governments, and anyone else with enough computing power to deploy and target them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsntlJZ9h1U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsntlJZ9h1U

neotrope 4y ago

AIs fighting AIs is the dystopian future I'm here for.

anon3242 4y ago
I don't think we would be able to access more advanced AIs than the big corporations and governments.

makk 4y ago

Ultimately, it doesn't matter what he wants. It matters what his AI agents want. Maybe they'll decide to stick with his profit-maximization script. That alone could be enough to take civilization down with it. Or maybe they'll decide to do something more creative. Point is... it's not clear that releasing all those AI bots on people is a net positive for Meta or anyone.

thghtihadanacct 4y ago
Im looking forward to them targeting him relentlessly due to wealth
throwawa14223 4y ago
Do we have a reason to believe the kinds of AI that people are talking about have wants? The gap between ChatGPT and personhood seems impassable.
- makk 4y ago
  That people are talking about today? Certainly not. That may emerge as these things scale up and we get better at building them, maybe.
- UncleEntity 4y ago
  “Agent” infers they have objectives and goals which isn’t too far off from “wants”. An AI powered cruise missile might not “want” to hurt you but can make you have the worst day ever. Once you start believing you can reason with them it’s already too late…

twelve40 4y ago

that's an awesome idea. it looks like there is an emerging market of protecting people from AI. detecting AI-generated "content" in what is supposed to be essays or research papers or even books by a person maybe. blocking yourself from AI-generated ads and marketing tricks, possibly also leveraging AI to do that "prompt engineering" to monitor and detect if your content was stolen (sorry, trained on) by "AI" etc

bamboozled 4y ago
"prompt engineering" to monitor and detect if your content was stolen (sorry, trained on) by "AI" Love this the most haha

gonzo41 4y ago

I sort of expect someone reading HN to eventually develop an AI so annoying that people just stop using the internet in interactive ways.

foogazi 4y ago

I’d love to buy from a bot and shop at my convenience - it’s one of the pros of online shopping A human night tire of me asking too many questions or be unavailable after 5pm