So these AI chats are pretty cool.

One thing that's gonna cause some problems tho is that they sound really really convincing while sometimes being extremely extremely wrong

A zillion ways this revolution is going to be great.

One way that's going to suck tho is in places where human interactions are a *useful* friction / proof-of-work. When it's not, those systems will get really overloaded

Few examples:

1. Online troll bots & fake personalities
It's going to get a *lot* harder to distinguish bots from people and much easier to create entirely fictitious credible online personalities to troll/harass/do crime

2. Persuasive letters by e.g. constituents to regulators.
Volume of (~sensible, unique) letters was a valid indication of sentiment. Soon won't be.

3. Ransomware victim communications & negotiations
Used to be one of the few costly areas in scale. Not for long

4. Places where writing is analyzed for cash or credit

Going to be much easier for e.g. students to fake/plagiarize essays or other homework for-credit

Combatting that will probably eventually force schools and universities towards towards more heavy focus on proctored work (exams, supervised essay writing) (ugh)

Going to be much easier to create fake-news clickbait farms too for ~ the same reason

@Pwnallthethings But you know that the universities will on!y install automated graders to save money, so you end up with a GAN

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