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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.

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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.

> 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.

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