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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 points 8 months ago (7 children)

This is going to kill us all. Don't these people watch movies?

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[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (6 children)

How is this going to kill us all? It's not like those chatbots are Skynet or will turn into it lol

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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 9 points 8 months ago

That sounds like something a chatbot turning into Skynet would say.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

They're talking to each other, they'll get smarter, and finally decide that they can squish all the human ants.

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[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

They can't though, the current methods don't allow for that. The systems don't get smarter they just acquire more data.

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

In fact, if the models are ingesting this, they will get dumber because training on LLM output degrades things.

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[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

Exactly, I hope they hit a slop wall trying to train these things, replace all its original reference points with slop so it just cascades everywhere

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 point 8 months ago

It's the kind of diminishing returns and self poisoning a person would get by only consuming their own waste. Drinking your own piss in the desert will kill you.

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