Comment by Animats
13 hours ago
> Who does your AI agent actually work for?
Yes. I made that point a few weeks ago. The legal concept of principal and agent applies.
Running all content through an AI in the cloud to check for crimethink[1] is becoming a reality. Currently proposed:
- "Child Sexual Abuse Material", which is a growing category that now includes AI-generated images in the US and may soon extend to Japanese animation.
- Threats against important individuals. This may be extended to include what used to be considered political speech in the US.
- Threats against the government. Already illegal in many countries. Bear in mind that Trump likes to accuse people of "treason" for things other than making war against the United States.
- "Grooming" of minors, which is vague enough to cover most interactions.
- Discussing drugs, sex, guns, gay activity, etc. Variously prohibited in some countries.
- Organizing protests or labor unions. Prohibited in China and already searched for.
Note that talking around the issue or jargon won't evade censorship. LLMs can deal with that. Run some ebonics or leetspeak through an LLM and ask it to translate it to standard English. Translation will succeed. The LLM has probably seen more of that dialect than most people.
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stepping on a face, forever" - Orwell
A cynic in me is amused at the yet unknown corporation being placed under investigation due to a trigger phrase in one of the meetings transcribed incorrectly.
Your point is worth reiterating.
Or poisoned-data that sets up a trap, so that a system will later confabulate false innocence or guilt when certain topics or targets come up.
"Grooming" in particular is the angle that Republicans want to use to illegalize any kind of gender-nonconforming behavior, up to and including desired states like "women wearing pants is crossdressing, and doing so around children is a felony".