[aiphex]

If they aren't already, AIs will be posting content on social media apps. These apps measure the amount of attention you pay to each thing presented to you. If it's more than a picture or a video, but something interactive, then it could also learn how we interact with things in more complex ways. It also gets feedback from us through the comments section. Like biological mutations, AIs will learn which of its (at first) random novel creations we find utility in. It will then better learn what drives us and will learn to create and extrapolate at a much faster pace than us.

[danaris]

> If they aren't already, AIs will be posting content on social media apps.

No, people will be posting content on social media apps that they asked LLMs to write.

It may be done through a script, or API calls, but it's 100% at the instigation, direct or indirect, of a human.

LLMs have no ability to decide independently to post to social media, even if you do write code to give them the technical capability to make such posts.

[galleywest200]

With the new ChatGPT Plugins, it seems they may actually be able to make POST requests to social media APIs soon. It is likely that an LLM could have "I should post a tweet about this" in its training data.

Granted... currently it is likely humans that have written the code that the new Plugins are allowed to call -- but they have given ChatGPT the ability to execute rudimentary Python scrips and even ffmpeg so I think it is only a matter of time before one outputs a Tweet written by its own code.

[danaris]

> It is likely that an LLM could have "I should post a tweet about this" in its training data.

That only matters if a human has explicitly hooked it up so that when ChatGPT encounters that set of tokens, it executes the "post to Twitter" scripts.

ChatGPT doesn't comprehend the text it's producing, so without humans making specific links between particular bundles of text and the relevant plugin scripts, it will never "decide" to use them.

[aiphex]

At a high level, all that would have to happen is a person gives GPT, or something like it, access to a social media page and tells it to post to it with the objective of getting the highest level of interaction and followers.

[danaris]

...which in no way grants GPT sapience, nor would it prove that it has it.

The human is still providing the capability to post, the timing script to trigger posting, and the specific heuristic to be used in determining how to choose what to post.