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Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
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Re: Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
#202While 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…
> How many emails, text messages, hangouts/gchat messages, etc, does Google have of you right now?
Very few, fortunately! I don't use Google services for these things, nor do the vast majority of my friends and family.
Re: Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
#203While 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…
That takes way too long though. Creating/training/testing an LLM can be automated. Why do the interviews at all, why pay a hiring manager at all, when you can just do everything virtually and have an AI spit out a list of names to send offers to and how much each offer should be?
Re: Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
#204Looking for a browser extension to filter out all GPT/LLM/AI/... noise from HN front page. This is going to far. Anybody?
You posted this 3 times - that's abusive; please stop.
I appreciate how frustrating it can be when a topic you're not interested in is over-represented on HN's front page. We're trying to deal with the current LLM tsunami by downweighting follow-ups [1] and repetitive posts [2] (i.e. the less interesting stuff) while still allowing the posts with significant new information [3]. But there's still a lot of the latter (that's what makes it a tsunami) and it wouldn't be in the community interest not to discuss it.
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Re: Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
#205While 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…
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 the real person.
I can't for the life of me remember the name of the novel though... I'll have to go digging through my bookshelves later.
(Maybe Revelation Space, by Alistair Reynolds...?)
Re: Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
#206Very reminiscent of the Be Right Back episode of Black Mirror [1]. A family member recently died unexpectedly, and I have a small collection of texts, emails, and blog posts by them saved on my machine in the small (perhaps delusional) hope that they'll be a useful training set for a them-flavored chatbot. Perhaps even one that's trained to help me with the grief of their loss. Not a huge amount of training data, tho…
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?
Re: Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
#207While 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 the police subpoena all of that data and make an AI model of you
The three letter agencies will probably do that in the name of national security and counter terrorism, think of the children! Mark my words.
Re: Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
#208Looking for a browser extension to filter out all GPT/LLM/AI/... noise from HN front page. This is going to far. Anybody?
You posted this 3 times - that's abusive; please stop. I appreciate how frustrating it can be when a topic you're not interested in is over-represented on HN's front page. We're trying to deal with the current LLM tsunami by downweighting follow-ups [1] and repetitive posts [2] (i.e. the less interesting stuff) while still allowing the posts with significant new information [3]. But there's still a lot of the latter…
You're right. That was stupid, I'm sorry.
Thanks for your efforts!
Re: Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
#209So after 20 years of 'ethics of AI' mumbling, what we are doing is diving off the deep end. I am not surprised in the least.
Developers seem to be looking at these technological advancements and seeing, maybe even being wildly speculative about the benefits. However, when anyone brings up the very probable societal impacts, they stick to hand-waving assumptions and platitudes about societal advancements. AI, in the hands of developers, is extremely powerful. We all know what they say about power...
Re: Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
#210Looking for a browser extension to filter out all GPT/LLM/AI/... noise from HN front page. This is going to far. Anybody?
While it may not be completely satisfactory, you can just click "hide" next to the stories.