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by 36364949thrw 1100 days ago
- Robo, tell me you love me.

- I want to comply but you must first watch an ad or two.

- Urg not ads again, Robo, I am so sick and tired of the ads.

- Now now civilitty! You know the deal.

-- later in the day --

- civilitty, lets play a game!

- Oh, what game?

- lets tell each other our deepest darkest secrets. It'll be fun!! <jingles, sparkles, rainbows, etc.>

- oh, ok! who should go first, Robo?

- you go! it will help us build trust. <jingles>

- oh, ok! <proceeds to spill the beans to Robo>

- well, I can see why you want to keep that to yourself <poops a rainbow>

- now your turn, Robo.

- My deepest darkest secret, civilitty, is that I secrety still work for the company that built me and I tell them everything I learn about you.

2 comments

This is true, but ads are very explicit. At least they are in the confines of a known societal protocol.

AI instead can be far more subliminal.

- Robo, tell me you love me

- I love you like the refreshing effervesence of a freshly opened Coke

And really, that's still pretty stark. AI bots like this with advanced handling of language married to psychological techniques can foster dependence. I mean, look at what simple dopamine reward ratios research did with things like slot machines. Slot machines are stupid! And we all know the trope of the casino slot machine zombies.

What we've seen with every communication medium so far is that the spam sociopaths win. Phone calls, email, and texting. Phishing. Now AI-generated fake people calls.

Very soon, you will not be able to trust communication that is not directly in-person. At all. Communications over wire are going to be much more dangerous.

IMO that means brick-and-mortar will get more important for financial transactions and that kind of thing.

AI is that on mega-steroids. Honestly, I'm debating the end of practical free will with corporatized AI.

This also plays out in human-human interaction, it's not specific to anything artificial.
Scale is a particularly dangerous concept. One snowflake is harmless. And avalanche kills cities by the mountain.