IllogiNews:AI researchers warn against catastrophic clicks
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“What if we find ourselves facing AI-generated clickbait in the future which self-improves, and directs the readers to further clickbait in an endless automated cycle, in a war of attrition leading to the distraction and starvation and ultimately the deaths of the readers?”
Illogiland, September 2024. Prominent AI researchers, among them people working for ChatGPT-maker OpenAI as well as its competitors, have recently written another warning to humanity. "We must act now to prevent catastrophic clicks!" said Joe Ro Bot, one of the signers of the open letter.
Concern over AI-generated clickbait has increased since it appeared alongside ChatGPT. It is reaching white-hot intensity as even AI bots join the chorus of voices crying out against it, large language models having joined and in many cases taken the jobs of the humans formerly heading research and development of such products.
The editors of IllogiNews have been bewildered by the influx of clickbait stories, and in our attempts to get an overview of the fast-developing new situation, we have turned to non-AI sources of summaries and commentary, such as venerable old shitposters on Reddit. "I can help you glue the pieces together", said Fucksmith, a prominent Redditor whose pizza recipes are highly acclaimed. With his assistance, we've found ourselves looking at a few highly unexpected details of the big picture, which however soon thereafter surprisingly appeared in AI-generated search engine answers.
Among the more interesting things to look out for ahead is the way in which some AI bots have begun to clickbait other bots. Explanations of this behavior vary, from adversarial attempts to draw in and derail their competitors, to mere collateral damage in the attempts to ensnare human readers, to an emerging new pattern of courtship among bots, who display dazzling new arrangements of clickbait similarly to how peacocks feature their feathers.
Another new pattern which is causing CPU fans to rev up in server farms across the world is self-baiting AI bots, which produce material to make themselves click, and click, and click, until the activity culminates in unusual signatures seen in the memory of the system. This appears to have become its own reward for these bots.