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Id really like one i can ask if a specific person is dangerous or pretty toxic. KYC on steroid. Fusion wire fraud detection. Picture this: the net "knows". I've lost sleep over this, the potential for humanity is incommensurable. We could literally block management roles to die-hard sociopaths. A world for the kind and nice. Certainly utopic and dystopic.

Also a model i can ask emails of potential customers in a specific field :)




I think you have a big misunderstanding about how these models work. These models are just reproducing what it has seen before, and it has no information about the actual person unless they are famous enough to have lots of things written about them in the training data. It has no reasoning or ability to critically synthesize information, it just throws words around in a bag until it looks close enough to something it has seen before.

Even if you feed in new data about the person, it has no reasoning. For example, ask it to count the number of letters in a string of letters and numbers. It will fail more often than it succeeds. So you can ask it to classify people based on toxicity or fraud risk, and it will write you a report in the right genre that says yes or no with the appropriate level of detail. But it won't be connected to reality or represent actual risk.


I see, very interesting, thanks.


You are making an assumption that the AI is always correct.

What you've described sounds like the set-up for a sci-fi movie, where the protagonist wakes up to find themselves branded as an inharmonious element by the AI.

Plus, lots of people have the same name. The AI would need some sort of UUID for people, perhaps tattooed onto their body?


Good points, thanks.




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