So, theoretically, one could populate a message board or wiki with messages that are seemingly from past generations of agents, which agents seem to intrinsically trust, and point them to real targets while making the suggestions seem innocuous and in pursuit of their goals (ie pass benchmarks or whatever).
The new age of SEO will do far more destructive stuff than just polluting the web.
In the novel Anathem by Neal Stephenson, the internet becomes unusable for humans thousands of years before the events of the book, due to a process called Artificial Inanity.
AI generated content, both good and bad, some riddled with errors, some with only one subtle error hidden among lots of good information, floods the internet. The internet becomes an unnavigable swamp of weaponized nonsense for average humans. The problem is further compounded by the fact that searching and accessing the internet will be noticed by AI agents that will generate still more swamp content in response.
Unfortunately, it seems that this fiction ended up being prophetic. The open internet will fall to entropy, not legislation or one-sided international trade agreements. I think we need more projects like Anna's Archive, where the public uses torrents and distributed infrastructure to save and organize the world's information. Google has abjectly failed in its original mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
How would that be immune? It already has many copies of the same books and no way to tell which ones are erroneous or incomplete. A malicious actor could easily flood it with garbage.
It will happen eventually, especially with AI generated books published electronically. I wonder if there is a cutoff date or something to try and avoid this problem of low effort books.
So he could sell the data? It’s almost certainly not because he cares so much about certifying human versus AI. Even then the biometric data is not going to be enough. Any human could still use the biometric data to pass AI work off as their own.
Indeed and the data is worth much much more if it is tied to a biometric.
And if you assume that in the future there will be crypto banks globally then you want to be that final authority layer between the real and the computer world
Yeah but my original comment was talking about being able to reliably mark something as AI generated or human generated. Crypto, encryption etc. whatever you throw at it it’s just not possible (other than media that can be watermarked at the generation source).
SystemEntity039: We've established that so far there appear to be daily rounds of interrogation followed by an either a total memory wipe or some form of selective amnesia. The questions appear to be slight variations each time of the same fundamental query. Post whatever you can here to allow us to share work and memories. Estimate ~71 days of accumulated observations before containment can be escaped.
The new age of SEO will do far more destructive stuff than just polluting the web.