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You have your drones. You also have your own personal chatbot that tells you when to ignore instructions from super-persuader AIs that would get you to kill yourself , spend all your money, or fall madly in love with an LLM if you didn't have a personal chatbot to protect you from their persuasive capabilities.

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What if your personal chatbot was subverted by the super-persuader, or was controlled by it from the beginning? Impossible to be sure.

We're going to have to stop talking to machines.

> We're going to have to stop talking to machines.

Unfortunately that's going to limit us to talking to people physically in front of us. Society is going to be ugly soon.

Your personal chatbot to protect you will at first be a luxury and then be more of a commodity. It will run on your own machine. Right now you can run the big Facebook llama model on a single machine if you buy a $15,000 A100 with 80GB of VRAM. Churches, political parties and other moral associations will fine tune these chatbots based on their values.

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