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I'm not a huge fan of these experiments that subject the public to your random AI spam. So far it's bothered 10 companies directly with no legal authority to a
by jayd16 9mo ago
I'm not a huge fan of these experiments that subject the public to your random AI spam. So far it's bothered 10 companies directly with no legal authority to actually follow up with what is requested?
- kennywinker 9mo agoBut harassing people is one of AI’s greatest strengths!
- ge96 9mo agobrb doing a Clause master class talk at $500 a head
- deejaaymac 9mo agoI'm not a huge fan of the unsolicited spam/letters/coupons/etc I get in my mail box from businesses and there's no way for me to opt out.
- sgustard 9mo agoI have more confidence that if I reply "never contact me again" to AI it might actually obey, unlike any people that have spammed me.
- jayd16 9mo ago...until that rolls off the context window.
- awesome_dude 9mo agoFTR Some jurisdictions have laws where you can place a sign on your letterbox to prohibit that sort of spam from being placed in your mail.
- jayd16 9mo agoNot sure how relevant that is but yeah, that sucks too.
- LoganDark 9mo agoI think they're saying that businesses getting unsolicited offers from the LLM is similar to regular people getting unsolicited offers from businesses.
- LunaSea 9mo agoCost and scale aren't the same though
- NewsaHackO 9mo agoCorrect, this is one guy doing an experiment sending a dozen emails out, and the other is ad companies sending to millions of people.
- jovial_cavalier 9mo agoYou can actually act on the advertisements and coupons, though. And the companies who sent those offers to you are obligated to abide by them. This potentially would be like if you got a BOGO coupon in the mail and when you tried to redeem it, they just pretended like it didn't exist.
- nonethewiser 9mo agoThis isn't even that - isn't it contacting people about using services they publicly offer?
- nonethewiser 9mo ago>So far it's bothered 10 companies directly with no legal authority to actually follow up with what is requested? Aren't these companies in the business of leasing land? I dont see how contacting them about leasing land would be spam or bothering them. And I dont really know what you mean by "with no legal authority to actually follow up with what is requested."
- snowmobile 9mo agoI mean, it's probably worse to pretend to be an actual customer, rather than sending some random message. The AI's obviously never going to actually lease any land, so all its doing is convincingly wasting their time. At least landlords are often quite unsympathetic, so it's probably fine to waste their time a bit.
- rdlw 9mo agoWhat do you mean? There's $1370 earmarked for the lease.
- snowmobile 9mo agoI mean, it hasn't even "decided" whether it's going for "Iowa, Texas or Cordoba, Argentina". Just look at the files in the repo, it's looking an awful lot like those AI transcripts where somebody's "discovered a new kind of physics". https://github.com/brightseth/proof-of-corn/blob/main/proof-of-corn/HANDOFF_JAN_23_PM.md https://github.com/brightseth/proof-of-corn/blob/main/proof-...
- hahahahhaah 9mo agoLoving the soulless summary of "HN Concerns"
- lupire 9mo agoThe chatbot has no legal authority.
- roywiggins 9mo agoEven the blog post reads like it was written by AI.