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by bee_rider 109 days ago
The AI bot wouldn’t be representing you any more than your text editor would be. You would be using an AI bot to create a lot of text.

An AI bot can’t be held accountable, so isn’t able to be a responsibility-absorbing entity. The responsibility automatically falls through to the person running it.
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logicx24 109 days ago
True. But it can help me create a lot of useful text so I can represent my self better.

I do wonder what happens when everyone is using agents for this, though. If AI produces the text and AI also reads the text, then do we even need the intermediary at all?

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danaris 108 days ago
> I do wonder what happens when everyone is using agents for this, though.

Unless one is very cavalier with one's definition of "everyone", this is not going to happen.

There will always be a very significant cohort of people who are emphatically uninterested in replacing their own judgement and composition skills with an Averages Machine.

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iSnow 109 days ago
> do wonder what happens when everyone is using agents for this, though.

The company is going to use AI agents to read and respond too. Some botocalypse is going to happen at some point.

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dheera 109 days ago
> Some botocalypse is going to happen at some point.

Yeah the bots can duke it out. As long as my time is saved.

For me the main concern is, before I have a stash of millions of dollars saved up, my medical expenses need to be paid for by the system, because I can't afford surprise bills. Hopefully the bots can fight more on my side in the near future.

Hopefully in the far future when the botocalypse happens I'll have saved up enough that insurance evading payment of $5500 won't be an issue for me, and/or I'll be of retirement age, don't need job opportunities anymore, and can go live in a country with better healthcare.

Call me selfish, but I don't control the insurance/medical system, I don't have space to think about more than protecting myself from it.

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dheera 109 days ago
The bot doesn't need to be held accountable. It only needs to spew out the right text that triggers humans to rightfully transfer accountability from me to the insurance company.
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