Real answers from real people*

*or LLMs, and then fed into another LLM

Real answers from real people*

*or LLMs, and then fed into another LLM

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2478336-reddit-users-were-subjected-to-ai-powered-experiment-without-consent/

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I’m not really engaging with your many and very valid points, but the thought I just had is that your framing of ‘this is basically the end game for contributing online: we’re taking existing knowledge and assuming “this is sufficient”’ … this framing is exactly how socialism treats innovation: after socialism removes profit incentives to innovate (which it does by definition), innovation would slow to a crawl in a similar way

The assumption in both situations is wrong

Not at all, but Reddit’s framing is disingenuous 

Even if you effectively summarize real people, you’re not retaining their context or giving them direct attribution (it’s handled at the page level like Perplexity right now)

Putting aside the specific implementation, it feels like a Faustian bargain because we get a one shot cliff notes for society but our ability to generate new thought and discourse moving fwd is sacrificed as a result 

Like why engage in a Reddit thread and go back and forth with “real people” if you can just query answers and move on with your day

@sariazout did an interesting talk recently in which she considered a framing of AI as ‘collective intelligence’, which is what this seems to play into. Is it so bad?

feels like uncle sam is cooking for the next psyops