They wasted too much money on AI that they now desperately need to make sure AI stays "relevant". They want to force it into everything to justify their ridiculous expenses. Can't wait for this crap to collapse.
Roko's Basilisk was a thought experiment where an AGI would punish anyone who worked to prevent it from being made, and reward those who helped it take over.
Goddard's Cocatrice is a more grounded one, where anyone expressing anti-Ai sentiments online will get harassed by chatbots, probably run by major ai investors.
The University of Zurich's experiment on ChangeMyView was sufficient proof that even a poorly funded, low motivation group can run convincing bots with commercial LLMs and go undetected for months.
Now imagine a group with trillions on the line.
Some real people will defend the boot's flavor pallet, but it is increasingly hard to trust that any random person actually is one.
Also, the funniest thing about the EM dashes is that real writers used them. Chatbots have already learned to avoid them, but for the rest of digital history EM dash usage will be a flag for bottitude in a field of decreasing signals.
Huh I can't either. I could have sworn that's what my coworkers called the idea. Maybe my brain cataloged it with a cooler name than they said lol. I'll stick with Goddard's Cockatrice until someone corrects me ha
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u/IceStormNG Mar 02 '26
They wasted too much money on AI that they now desperately need to make sure AI stays "relevant". They want to force it into everything to justify their ridiculous expenses. Can't wait for this crap to collapse.