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It would be revealing to see some of the e-mail communications this person was sending to MITRE while trying to fight this issue. We’re all familiar with how s
by Aurornis 2mo ago
It would be revealing to see some of the e-mail communications this person was sending to MITRE while trying to fight this issue.
We’re all familiar with how some use LLMs to write code and submit PRs, but there’s a growing problem of people using LLMs to tirelessly fight issues with communications like e-mails and even suggesting physical paperwork too.
Now that the effort to argue something against an institution is approaching zero, more people are getting the idea to have their LLM and harness fight some battles for them. It feels like it costs them very little but if there’s a non-zero chance of personal gain they do it. I’m hearing a lot of stories about everything from local governments to university administration offices being overwhelmed by requests that just keep coming in from relentless senders who figure asking for anything is worth a try even if there’s no chance it would be granted.
I think we’re going to have to rethink a lot of our communication and request systems that previously relied on the fact that most people wouldn’t take the effort to argue for something that they didn’t deserve. When the cost of arguing approaches zero, the machine can keep trying to get the non-zero chance of success for them.
- somat 2mo agoIt sounds like the only end result of this is them making the bureaucracy even more bureaucratic by employing their own agents, where the only way to get anything done is to have your agents fight their agents. Frankly, it feels like Kafka was actually an optimist.
- Gigachad 2mo agoEmail will just be AI agents arguing with each other. Where the only way to get anything done will be to show up at the office and ask in person.
- rwmj 2mo agoThere was a recent article in The Economist about people fighting employment disputes with AI (https://archive.ph/mi3zu https://archive.ph/mi3zu). On the one hand, democratizing the system, on the other hand filling it with massive quantities of legally questionable slop.
- MBCook 2mo agoI’ve seen people (and even doctors) advocate doing that for fighting medical rejections too. If the insurance company wants to dump tons of paperwork and demand responses to nonsense, why not send them large piles of nonsense that they have to respond to. Even out the burden. It’s a lovely system we’ve invented for ourselves.
- MBCook 2mo agoReading the messages in the original bug report reminded me of LLMs. But I don’t know if it was. Because it ALSO reminded me of dealing with people who will just keep bringing up the same point as if you’re an idiot while completely ignoring what you’re trying to say. They don’t have a conversation with you so much as just talk at you until you (hopefully) give up. “Yes, I agree (thing you said to refute my claim), but (my exact claim you’ve already poked holes in multiple times).” until the heat death of the universe.