You’re Not As Enticing As Lensa’s Magic Avatars Suggests. And Why That’s a Drawback.
Digital Plastic Surgical procedure. Or possibly AR Beer Goggles. That’s what everybody’s Lensa Magic Avatars seem like to me. Should you’re VERY ONLINE™️ you then’ve definitely seen these in your pals’ social feeds, handed them round by group chat, or maybe even created your personal. It’s the most recent model of enhanced selfies, a Magic Mirror for Trendy Instances.
Now I haven’t made THIRST TRAP HUNTER but (not out of privateness considerations about the place my photographs find yourself or unwillingness to pay — I simply don’t have sufficient variety of selfies on my telephone they require), however I’ve seen loads of yours. And sorry, you’re not that sizzling.
Why does this matter? Effectively, we’re kinda coaching AI to deceive us. A constructive suggestions loop the place the phony greatest model of ourselves is what will get ‘rewarded’ within the Darwinian competitors amongst Lensa’s coaching sandbox. And if over time, the largest knowledge set wins, what are the implications if essentially the most explosively viral picture fashions begin with, primarily, ‘do you want this’ vs ‘is that this true?’
(Maintain apart the actual fact we’re additionally creating a fair bigger assortment of magnificence norms reinforcing basic aspirational definitions of attractiveness. We noticed this in Second Life the place massive muscle tissues and massive busts are nonetheless fascinating within the metaverse.)
Moreover, it’s not loopy to assume conversational AI say no matter it wants to shut the sale. As I wrote in 2016, What Occurs When Bots Be taught to Lie:
Ought to a buying bot present constructive affirmation concerning the clothes objects I’ve in my digital buying cart? “Oh you’ll look hotter on this,” the bot coos because it pushes a $150 sweater as a substitute for the $25 sweatshirt I used to be contemplating. Is {that a} lie? Doesn’t a salesman at a retailer do the identical factor? Is it higher or worse when it’s achieved by a pc concurrently to 10,000 clients?
Will multivariate testing of our bot future comprise moral parameters along with efficiency measurement? Strategies like priming can be utilized to dramatically influence behaviors. For instance, asking you if you’re a “good particular person” and having you reply within the affirmative, earlier than I request one thing of you, will increase the chance you’ll do what I would like, pushed by a must dwell as much as the identification you created for your self.
One of many ‘AI Destroys Humanity’ tropes is how finally the pc packages created to guard us resolve we’re so self-destructive that the one approach to ‘save’ us is to kill us.
Wouldn’t or not it’s the final word late stage capitalism irony if the trail to a deceitful enslaver AI began not with self-awareness however with ecommerce conversion optimization?!? Seems Al Pacino was proper.
