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Untrusted chatbot AI between you & the internet is a disaster waiting to happen
Putting an untrusted layer of chatbot AI between you and the internet is an obvious disaster waiting to happen This is directly motivated by reading about the Browser Company’s pivot to Dia, a chatbot-centric browser, but there are many similar cases. I feel like this is obvious but I’m not hearing it shouted from the rooftops so here it is: adding an untrusted middleman to your information diet and all of your personal communications will eventually become a disaster that will be obvious in hindsight.
Or maybe some company detects OpenAI’s web scraper and delivers customized content to win the recommendation. This is just the ‘economic crimes’ part of the equation, because manipulation there shows up in lawsuits. There’s plenty of pre-AI evidence for that too: Careless People, the Facebook tell-all book, is chock full of examples of insiders turning the dial to promote some people or silence others on the platform.
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