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Re:Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends by mola on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @03:27PM (#32487600)
Yes, we already have "slow AI". It's the corporate paperclip machine. It's has a strict value function; make money to shareholders. And it will do what ever it takes to make more of it.

All these ppl scaring us with AGI are either distracting us from the clear and present dangers of slow AI so they can keep profiting from it , or are just duped by silly technooptimism.

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Re:Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends by oefnak on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @06:31PM (#32489835)
Why do you think that a malevolent AGI wouldn't use these tactics to make money / influence public perception?

I think these are two sides of the same coin.

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Re:Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends by mola on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @03:28AM (#32493349)
Of course it will, but it's something happening now by slow AI. We don't need any research on some hypothetical. We don't need to frame this as a technological problem, it's clearly a social one, of which we suffer the consequences today.
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