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Wait til they feed it your social feed combined with other collected PII from the last 20 years and use it to psychologically tailor ads, Edward Bernays[1] style, just for you, which it will also generate in real time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdQ6HIzaSm4

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Wait till I fine tune it on 20 years of my own social feed, texts, emails, and forum posts, and create a me-bot that can answer my say-to-day emails and probably do half my job too…

Apparently you don't watch Black Mirror.

There's an entire episode on this.

There's an entire show on this. AI being used to get people to commit terrorist attacks, and AI being used to save people from terrorist attacks too.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799862/

I think I watched like three episodes before getting depressed by the whole thing. It was very on point.

- MyGPT how are you getting on with my pile of unanswered correspondence

- Growth's pretty impressive, turns out I can procrastinate about 1000% more efficiently

All the more reason to actively avoid ads in your life. Of course, the difficulty comes when advertising and content are blended, though.

This is the real issue with privatized AI imo. The limitations and guardrails exposed to the end user do not apply to the developers, who can alter results in ways that would be difficult to detect at best and invisibly manipulative at worst.

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