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by rpcope1 495 days ago
Yeah, that's absurdly scary. That's a huge social engineering/social control risk of there's a non trivial number of people using it like that...I mean imagine influencing the LLM to subtly pump and dump assets.
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Isn't this what Google does already? And it throws ads at you (ranked on whichever company pays them the most)

I suspect a decent open source llm would have a lot more transparency than the current methods of coagulating collective information

Two thoughts on this.

(1) The agent is the ad (Facebook/Reddit) (2) Game Theory and Agent Reasoning (Subtle malevolent intentions in adversarial gameplay)

A bit like what X/Twitter is doing.
Yeah I mean I just asked it how to make a million bucks off of memecoins and it gave me an extensive list of memecoin investing tips to make sure I didn't end up as a bag holder.

The only thing I'd trust it for would be explanations about well documented concepts and strategies, but even that is better to get from a well respected Youtube channel or financial advice outlet.