Hot take: 18 years of user contributions to reddit will serve as a base model for an AI that generates content and conversations. the reddit experience continues as a simulation, to harvest clicks, sa
Reddit Migration@kbin.social – 234 points – most of the time you'll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they're gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate thousands of comments and posts, all to support your corporate agenda.
for example you can set it to hate a public figure and force negative commentary into conversations all over the site. you can set it to praise and recommend your latest product. like when a pharma company has a new pill out, they'll be able to target self-help subs and flood them with fake anecdotes and user testimony that the new pill solves all your problems and you should check it out.
the only real humans you'll find there are the shills that run the place, and the poor suckers that fall for the scam.
it's gonna be a shithole.
Didn't they try that already and they ended up pulling the plug because the AI became a nazi?
Like all other before it. Tay got the same fate, and the only reason ChatGPT isn't it because they have some filters that have a bit more quality than the rest.
The main difference is that gpt does not learn from user interactions