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Playing devil's advocate: why is it important? Why do we need to know if an agent on the internet is human or robot? Generally what we actually need to know is
by lolinder 2y ago
Playing devil's advocate: why is it important? Why do we need to know if an agent on the internet is human or robot?
Generally what we actually need to know is if a given agent is engaging in manipulative behavior, illegal activities, or otherwise causing harm to us or our customers. Those behaviors are often correlated with robot agents, which has allowed us to use "is this a robot" as an imperfect proxy for "is this agent up to no good". But for most use cases the humanity isn't actually what we're interested in, it's whether the agent is abusive.
In a world where we can't verify humanity as easily, maybe we just need to find different proxies for abuse detection?
- modeless 2y agoI'm sympathetic to this viewpoint. There will be applications that need human verification, but maybe in most cases it doesn't matter. It does seem to me like the endgame of this would be that everyone interacts mostly with AIs online rather than other humans, as AIs will be (at least superficially) more helpful, patient, pleasant, whatever you want. Check out this social network of AI sycophants and imagine that they start populating all the regular social networks too: https://x.com/michaelsayman/status/1835841675584811239 https://x.com/michaelsayman/status/1835841675584811239