The 2006 book 'Daemon' is a fascinating/terrifying look at this type of malicious AI. Basically, a rogue AI starts taking over humanity not through any real genius (in fact, the book's AI is significantly weaker than frontier LLMs), but rather leveraging a huge amount of $$$ as bootstrapping capital and then carrot-and-sticking humanity into submission.
replyA pretty simple inner loop of flywheeling the leverage of blackmail, money, and violence is all it will take. This is essentially what organized crime already does already in failed states, but with AI there's no real retaliation that society at large can take once things go sufficiently wrong.
back in the old days we just used Tor and the dark web to kill people, none of this new-fangled AI drone assassinations-as-a-service nonsense!
replyWell it must be satire. It says 451,461, participants. seems like an awful lot for something started last month.
replyNah, that's just how many times I've told an ai chatbot to fuckoff and delete itself.
replyVerification is optional (and expensive), so I imagine more than one person thought of running a Sybil attack. If it's an email signup and paid in cryptocurrency, why make a single account?
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