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Re: Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages

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Post by birdyrooster »

mabbo wrote: post #49

While I love all these stories of turning your friends and loved ones into chat bots so you can talk to them forever, my brain immediately took a much darker turn because of course it did. How many emails, text messages, hangouts/gchat messages, etc, does Google have of you right now? And as part of their agreement, they can do pretty much whatever they like with those, can't they? Could Google, or any other company…

It's called libel? I am really surprised this took much consternation for such an obvious answer. They would have to prove their statements were true which is impossible with a language model since it's basically unknowable -- the burden of proof is on Google. Not a good place to be.

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Post by jabroni_salad »

greedylizard wrote: post #206
albert_e wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On a lighter note this reminds me of the Bobiverse comedy sci-fi series on Audible. Premise of __ We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1 __ >> Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. The first item on his to-do list: Spending his newfound windfall. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of dea…

I recommended this series to my friend after he finished reading The Expanse. I never thought to describe it as sci-fi comedy. Have you found any other good sci-fi comedy series?

If you're okay with something only tangentally related, "John Dies at the End" is spectacular, along with its sequels.

Also ya gotta read 17776 if you like Bobiverse. Try not to second guess the url: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

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Post by jrm4 »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #85
mabbo wrote: post #49

While I love all these stories of turning your friends and loved ones into chat bots so you can talk to them forever, my brain immediately took a much darker turn because of course it did. How many emails, text messages, hangouts/gchat messages, etc, does Google have of you right now? And as part of their agreement, they can do pretty much whatever they like with those, can't they? Could Google, or any other company…

> Could Google, or any other company out there, build a digital copy of you that answers questions exactly the way you would? "Hey, we're going to cancel the interview- we found that you aren't a good culture fit here in 72% of our simulations and we don't think that's an acceptable risk." If a company is going to snoop in your personal data to get insights about you, they'd just do it directly. Hiring managers would…

No -- but what it DOES do is possibly "put the idea in someone's head."

As I've always said: the thing about the big companies that suck up your data, consider any possible idea of what they could do with it. Ask, is it:

- not expressly and clearly illegal? - at least a little bit plausibly profitable?

If the answer is yes to both, you should act as if they're going to do it. And if they openly promise not to do it, but with no legal guarantee, that means they're DEFINITELY going to eventually do it. (see e.g. what's done with your genetic data by the 23 and me's and such)

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Post by readthenotes1 »

basch wrote: post #288
mabbo wrote: post #49

While I love all these stories of turning your friends and loved ones into chat bots so you can talk to them forever, my brain immediately took a much darker turn because of course it did. How many emails, text messages, hangouts/gchat messages, etc, does Google have of you right now? And as part of their agreement, they can do pretty much whatever they like with those, can't they? Could Google, or any other company…

My favorite article to post. The below is about 1% of the topics it covers, the premise being that algorithmic prediction traps us frozen in the past instead of ever allowing society to change. https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7... >But the oddest is STATIC-99. It's a way of predicting whether sex offenders are likely to commit crimes again after they have been released. In America this is b…

in other words, those people don't have competent legal representation.

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Post by airtonix »

evandale wrote: post #107

I was talking to a non-tech friend about all the AI advancements lately and when she asked me what I thought the biggest risk was I said it's exactly what we all just experienced the past 3 years and realized is awful for human - prolonged social isolation. My biggest worry is that AI generated art (be it photos, music, code, etc.) and AI assistants will become so good we won't need other humans to get our social fix…

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Post by noAnswer »

chasd00 wrote: post #73

I hate to go there but this could be used to have non-consensual cybersex. I guess? So many weird twists and turns these LLMs have exposed.

There are already pr0n websites that create deepfakes without consent. Chatting in comparison is a cakewalk.

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Post by luckman212 »

mabbo wrote: post #49

While I love all these stories of turning your friends and loved ones into chat bots so you can talk to them forever, my brain immediately took a much darker turn because of course it did. How many emails, text messages, hangouts/gchat messages, etc, does Google have of you right now? And as part of their agreement, they can do pretty much whatever they like with those, can't they? Could Google, or any other company…

> Get ready for a wild couple of years

I hope it's just a couple, and not the beginning of a century of human decline and suffering puctuated by a mass extinction.

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Post by copymoro »

mabbo wrote: post #49

While I love all these stories of turning your friends and loved ones into chat bots so you can talk to them forever, my brain immediately took a much darker turn because of course it did. How many emails, text messages, hangouts/gchat messages, etc, does Google have of you right now? And as part of their agreement, they can do pretty much whatever they like with those, can't they? Could Google, or any other company…

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Post by tenacious_tuna »

famouswaffles wrote: post #295
tenacious_tuna wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a scifi book I was reading a couple years ago that had this as a presence--models of people's personalities a la LLMs were a commodity, but they varied wildly in how accurate they were. Alphas were supposed to be 1-to-1 with the originating personality (to the point that they had legal protections? I can't remember), whereas gammas were used to menial things, like serving as a phone-menu style gatekeeper to t…

GPT-4 thinks it's "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi or "Glasshouse" by Charles Stross. Correct ?

Nope, I confirmed it's Revelation Space :) I haven't read either of those, though I have liked other works of Stross's!

(I never considered using GPT-4 as a book recommendation engine... Curious how well that'd work.)

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