[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?