alt Hacker News> I believe that ineffectual as it was, the reputational attack on me would be effective today against the right person. Another generation or two down the line, it will be a serious threat against our social order.
Damn straight.
Remember that every time we query an LLM, we're giving it ammo.
It won't take long for LLMs to have very intimate dossiers on every user, and I'm wondering what kinds of firewalls will be in place to keep one agent from accessing dossiers held by other agents.
Kompromat people must be having wet dreams over this.
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In the glorious future, there will be so much slop that it will be difficult to distinguish fact from fiction, and kompromat will lose its bite.
Which makes the odd HN AI booster excitement about LLMs as therapists simultaneously hilarious and disturbing. There are no controls for AI companies using divulged information. Theres also no regulation around the custodial control of that information either.
The big AI companies have not really demonstrated any interest in ethic or morality. Which means anything they can use against someone will eventually be used against them.
Interesting that when Grok was targeting and denuding women, engineers here said nothing, or were just chuckling about "how people don't understand the true purpose of AI"
And now that they themselves are targeted, suddenly they understand why it's a bad thing "to give LLMs ammo"...
Perhaps there is a lesson in empathy to learn? And to start to realize the real impact all this "tech" has on society?
People like Simon Wilinson which seem to have a hard time realizing why most people despise AI will perhaps start to understand that too, with such scenarios, who knows
You don't think the targeted phone/tv ads aren't suspiciously relevant to something you just said aloud to your spouse?
BigTech already has your next bowel movement dialled in.