Lex Fridman: commitment

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…We, we need to rethink social platforms a little bit if, if, if we, we, we go towards a future where everyone has their agent and agents maybe have their own Instagram profiles or Twitter accounts, so I can, like, do stuff on my behalf. I think it should very clearly be marked that they are doing stuff on my behalf and it’s not me. Because content is now so cheap. Eyeballs are the expensive part. And I find it very triggering when I read something and then I’m like, oh, no, this smells like AI. Yeah. Like, where, where is this headed in terms of what we value about the human experience? It feels like we’ll, we’ll move more and more towards in-person interaction and we’ll just communicate. We’ll talk to our AI agent to, to accomplish different tasks, to learn about different things, but we won’t value online interaction because there’ll be so much AI slob that smells and so many bots that it’s difficult. Well, if it’s smart, then it shouldn’t be difficult to filter. And then I can look at it if I want to. But yeah, this is, like, a big thing we need to solve right now. E- especially on this project, I get so many emails that are, let’s say nicely, agentically written.…

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