Not new about LLMs. Targeted ads / big data is this.
Another degree of capability, yes. But we have been trending here for a long time.
Another degree of capability, yes. But we have been trending here for a long time.
There's a reason attempted murder is a crime even if it was unsuccessful
We should not be gung-ho to give the government more power to regulate speech.
The point of view that says 'there is a reason we punish attempts' has difficulty explaining why we punish 'success' _even more_. There is a sort of bad concience about it. The paradoxes are discussed in a characteristically brilliant and twisted work 'The Punishment that Leaves Something to Chance' by David Lewis, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th c. It nominally defends the law of attempt but can as well be read as a catastophically destructive parody of it. https://andrewmbailey.com/dkl/Punishment_Chance.pdf
You're not allowed to bribe public officials. You're not going to escape the law by arguing that the bribe didn't get you the result you wanted.
Ads are not really the same. They can’t be as tightly targeted to what resonates with someone. Programmatic ads are certainly much better and closer than, say, television advertising, but users can’t _engage_ with them. Like actually chat with them.
That’s where this is headed and people are not ready. I don’t think we could prepare them, anyway.
> Ads are not really the same. They can’t be as tightly targeted to what resonates with someone.
The EU referendum in the UK proved your point false.
> Programmatic ads are certainly much better and closer than, say, television advertising, but users can’t _engage_ with them. Like actually chat with them.
When people talk about “ad tech”, they’re not talking about TV ;)
And yes, people can and do engage with them. That’s how ads on social media works.
During the EU referendum, people were even resharing ads on Facebook without even realising they were ads.