[TeMPOraL]

Stupid startup killing idea: an open-source script that runs LLM in the background and streams its output as input events, so the idiotic keylogger thinks it's all written by hand.

Just writing this down here instantly invalidates the premise.

An overkill variant to rub salt in the wounds of duped investors: make the script control a finger bot on an X/Y harness, so it literally presses the physical keys of a physical keyboard according to LLM output.

Bonus points for making a Kickstarter out of it and getting some YouTubers to talk about it (even as a joke) - then sitting back to watch as some factories in China go brrrr, and dropshippers flood the market with your "solution" before your fundraising campaign even ends.

[meindnoch]

>An overkill variant to rub salt in the wounds of duped investors: make the script control a finger bot on an X/Y harness, so it literally presses the physical keys of a physical keyboard according to LLM output.

That's how the first automated trading firms operated in the 80s. NASDAQ required all trades to be input via physical terminals, so they build an upside down "keyboard" with linear actuators in place of the keys, that would be then placed on top of the terminal keyboard, and could input trades automatically.

https://www.npr.org/2015/04/23/401781306/we-built-a-robot-th...

[anigbrowl]

That article is infuriating. Classic 'it was great when I did it, now it's gone too far.'

[TeMPOraL]

It's often enough the case. Our own industry has plenty of examples of things that are net win when they exist in small quantities, or available to small group of people, that rapidly become a net tragedy when scaled up and available to everyone. I keep pondering, if the ethically correct choice needs to always be either everyone having something, or no one at all?

[evilduck]

> make the script control a finger bot on an X/Y harness,

Too many points of mechanical failure. Just use a RPi Pico W (or other USB HID capable microcontroller) to emulate a keyboard and have it stream key codes at a human pace. Make it wifi or bluetooth enabled to stream key codes from another computer and no trace of an LLM would ever be on the target system.