I think it's inevitable that every internet community will be overtaken by AI chatbots. While that may initially be a problem for social media platforms that rely on people watching ads, they will capitalize on an even bigger market- advertising directly to the bots themselves. When bots gain functionality to make purchases on behalf of their user, advertisers will compete to influence them.
People will grow so trusting of their AI agents that they will allow them free reign to make decisions on which products or services to buy, so they will in effect become the primary decision maker of that household. And that's who advertisers target. By then, the advertisers themselves will be mostly AI guided as well, so it will be AI influencing AI, all at hyperspeed through countless iterations.
I shudder to think how this world will look, but it will happen sooner than we expect.
I had this thought a couple weeks back when I was a little bit high:
What if humans develop non-sentient AI like ChatGPT in the form of humanoid robots, but then humanity dies off before real sentient AI happens? So, you have a whole planet full of what are basically chat bots pretending to be people and doing everything they used to do, and copying from one another as opposed to receiving any new data/programming from humans.
Ninety percent of them will be dead from lack of hardware maintenance before anything interesting happens.
Extremely weird that there was no overlap between the "humanity can build durable computer hardware" era and "humanity can build a passable non-sentient AI" era.
Yeah it's not realistic at all, but could make for an interesting story setting if someone could resolve those major holes.
My doomer vision of the future has long been just a bunch of automated systems trading back and forth some meaningless papers in the wastelands of eviscerated habitats, line going up forever, with or without humans until the suns burn out
In Neal Stephenson's (I know, but his problem is not that he's inaccurate but that he doesn't see a problem with the dystopias he imagines.😔) Dodge in Hell, he had personal media cultivator/filterers being a major profession. And for people in the online hustle and grind, that's already kind of a thing, but one I could definitely see an AI replacing. So yeah, everyone having personal AIs to filter their media, their correspondence, their purchases. Gonna be a fucking hellscape. Especially because you know that cheapo version is gonna be compromised.
I love Stephenson’s books, but his interpretation of his own work is baffling. Hes like the reverse of the Torment Nexus meme, where he writes a book about the Torment Nexus that reads like a cautionary tale, but then he does an interview where it turns out he’s earnestly excited about the prospect of a private company building the Torment Nexus for profit. Legitimately one of the more extreme examples of Silicon Valley brain out there.
His last book was just too reddit brained for me. I don't know if I'll be picking up anymore after that, which is a shame because I really used to enjoy his work. Maybe it's just me moving left, but I swear he's gotten worse over the years.
Nah, you’re right, he’s past his peak. He had a great run in the 90s/00s, but his more recent work has been getting less compelling and less consistent. I don’t think his politics have gotten worse, it’s just that his output isn’t good enough to make up for them anymore.
People will grow so trusting of their AI agents that they will allow them free reign to make decisions on which products or services to buy, so they will in effect become the primary decision maker of that household.
Amazon tried to create this with the Alexa, other companies tried their own version on it as well. That sort of AI ordering just never really took off and I don't think it will any time soon. We live in a consumerist society, shopping is one of the few pleasures that is fully endorsed by capitalism.
yeah exactly, the product itself is quickly discarded and forgotten, but the dopamine rush from deciding to buy something and the anticipation while waiting for the item to arrive is the real treat.
Well yeah, all the finance bets bots are already having to deal with bot spam and shenaningans
