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I'm not a huge fan of these experiments that subject the public to your random AI spam. So far it's bothered 10 companies directly with no legal authority to actually follow up with what is requested?

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I'm not a huge fan of the unsolicited spam/letters/coupons/etc I get in my mail box from businesses and there's no way for me to opt out.

FTR Some jurisdictions have laws where you can place a sign on your letterbox to prohibit that sort of spam from being placed in your mail.

Not sure how relevant that is but yeah, that sucks too.

I think they're saying that businesses getting unsolicited offers from the LLM is similar to regular people getting unsolicited offers from businesses.

Cost and scale aren't the same though

Correct, this is one guy doing an experiment sending a dozen emails out, and the other is ad companies sending to millions of people.

You can actually act on the advertisements and coupons, though. And the companies who sent those offers to you are obligated to abide by them. This potentially would be like if you got a BOGO coupon in the mail and when you tried to redeem it, they just pretended like it didn't exist.

This isn't even that - isn't it contacting people about using services they publicly offer?

I have more confidence that if I reply "never contact me again" to AI it might actually obey, unlike any people that have spammed me.

...until that rolls off the context window.

>So far it's bothered 10 companies directly with no legal authority to actually follow up with what is requested?

Aren't these companies in the business of leasing land? I dont see how contacting them about leasing land would be spam or bothering them. And I dont really know what you mean by "with no legal authority to actually follow up with what is requested."

I mean, it's probably worse to pretend to be an actual customer, rather than sending some random message. The AI's obviously never going to actually lease any land, so all its doing is convincingly wasting their time. At least landlords are often quite unsympathetic, so it's probably fine to waste their time a bit.

What do you mean? There's $1370 earmarked for the lease.

I mean, it hasn't even "decided" whether it's going for "Iowa, Texas or Cordoba, Argentina". Just look at the files in the repo, it's looking an awful lot like those AI transcripts where somebody's "discovered a new kind of physics". https://github.com/brightseth/proof-of-corn/blob/main/proof-...

Loving the soulless summary of "HN Concerns"

The chatbot has no legal authority.

But harassing people is one of AI’s greatest strengths!

brb doing a Clause master class talk at $500 a head

Even the blog post reads like it was written by AI.

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