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0 pointsmoritonal3y ago0 comments

We can't stop it, but giving an AI unbridled access to the Internet is a terrible idea. Whether it's a misphrased question or an clever prompt hack; entire sites will be crushed by the sheer superhuman performance of it.

Hackernews will be just robots chatting to each other nudging towards the latest product-hunt.

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comboy3y ago· 3 in thread

We will develop web of trust [1]. I assign weighted(!) trust to my friends, they assign to their friends. Small world [2]. This also fixes fake reviews, dependencies security, politics and whole lot of other things.

The idea is too good not to happen. I repeat it from time to time on HN. I'm currently not in the position to implement it (not sure if I ever will be, it is hard). I just hope it's created in some decentralized form before some corpo does it. When controlled by single entity it is useless.

1. http://comboy.pl/wot.html (not really worth your time, long time ago too verbose, but feel free)

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

sangnoir3y ago

> This also fixes fake reviews, dependencies security, politics and whole lot of other things.

All you have to do is lookup some batshit-crazy things people in your social circle already share on Facebook (or LinkedIn) to know this won't solve most of those problems.

I may trust my friend to thoroughly vet information on Disc Golf, but they may be out of their element when it comes to "Revolutionary cold fusion breakthrough", which I may get through them if there's a single generic weight for trust.

comboy3y ago

Good observation. I thought at first that it should be multidimensional, but categories are hard. Very hard.

I think general trust could work. People I trust won't give strong opinions about thing they have no idea about. You choose these people and you assign weights. It's not a random family circle.

I have some vague ideas about wallet of personalities which would serve the same purpose as categories of trust.

furyofantares3y ago

I've idly and very-casually thought about this for a long time, ever since decentralized filesharing really. If you ever do feel that you're in a position to take a stab at it, I'd be interested as well.

flangola73y ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM

The internet will be saturated with fake people soon. Someone already did a PoC of this on 4chan as a joke with just a small GPT2 model. In a few years you won't be able to tell if you're talking to a human unless they're physically in front of you.

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