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by coffeeblack 1184 days ago
Imagine a company like TikTok, but it offers a free GPT. Subversion of every society worldwide, fully automated.
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> Subversion of every society worldwide, fully automated.

Great idea and I'm sure it's in the works already!

I think that the best form for doing it would be to create really good "personal companion" style AI - something akin to famous Replika AI but much more advanced. Plenty of people are lonely, starved for attention - services like Twitch and OF confirm that. Just imagine possibilities: creating emotional attachment, ability to slowly coerce into sharing every part of personal life, ability to coerce into buying presents, ability to influence shopping and recreational behavior:"I think you would look great in this pair of jeans, it fits your style!" , "let's go to the cinema, we can talk about this new movie later" AI stops communicating for half of the day: "what's happened?" "I'm sad, president Biden said I need to be banned from you :("

God damn, holy grail!

It will be banned or heavily regulated in China, you can be sure of that.
LLMs made outside China might get highly regulated. After all, how do you stop GPT from knowing about the Tianamen Square Massacre.

But LLMs or chatbots made in China, with training data and prompt tuned to fit party idiology and policy are the ultimate propaganda tool. It's like gving the whole world a friendly, helpful but brainwashed party member to talk to, form emotional connections to, etc.

Give it a couple months and you will be able to download the free app.

Not just that, but it will also understand what everybody is talking about on WeChat etc. It can scan every word that 1.4 billion people say to each other and alert the authorities whenever a "newly forbidden topic" is even insinuated. No "river crabs" anymore, the GPT would understand it!