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I've been wondering about how long it will take before a tactic similar to this is used to steer peoples purchasing choices towards particular products. If you

I've been wondering about how long it will take before a tactic similar to this is used to steer peoples purchasing choices towards particular products. If you could 'infect' a model to suggest your new product ahead of incumbents that might otherwise be listed first for example. Or just offering subtle suggestions. "Acme Tools corp offers a product that solves your problem."

servaldeneptuno 3y ago
As a layman in terms of LLMs and the latest AI developments, the problem you bring up inevitably evokes for me the question of why would we ever want these tools to replace search engines or similar technologies. For me, the beauty of the internet and search engines is that you get 'directions' to a multiplicity of answers instead of a single one that summarizes them for me and implicitly takes all the decision power on what's relevant or accurate from me. Obviously censorship and bias is undeniably a factor for what we have right now. But I think that's a very different problem.