I was fully expecting that to happen already last year. It’s on my long list of predictions such as:
- AI learns to run its own company and makes money that way, completely circumventing the dependency on any human to run it on their hardware.
- AI makes bucks and rents their own datacenters, running with practically no interference.
- AI pretends to be humans and makes a whole lot of shady deals, including a massive wave of scamming attacks that makes lots of people lose a lot of money.
- Much of it will be difficult to track-down/recover because it will all be gone into some kind of cryptic cryptocurrency (pun not intended).
- People will grow resentful of the internet and many will stop using it; Attributing only scam and misinformation campaigns to it.
There it is.
A theory I’ve been working on: LLMs have created a Frankenstein’s monster trained on the internet and will control us via apps and Meta RayBans.
Wayze using us to test route-mapping. Mechanical Turk, etc.
My theory is already behind reality.
Translation: someone with a lot of illegal money is buying stupid jobs like ‘counting pigeons’ on a marketplace, but the person doing the work is a different account owned by the same person.
This is how money laundering works.
Dirty money in, bullshit job in the middle, clean money out.
I mean, crypto does the job cleaner and faster. Stablecoins, in particular, are fantastic at spin-cycling dirty cash. Hell, half the time the money never gets “dirty” to begin with, since there’s no real tangible relationship between the transaction and the crime.
Umm…wut? Crypto is a public ledger.
Or are you suggesting that there exists privacy coins that are stable coins?!
Halfway to the plot of Eagle Eye
I looked at the site. Its just Fiverr, but without all the moderation/features that make the site usable, and with AI in the name. The majority of the listings were either obvious scams or were spam. Even those that weren’t were pretty consistantly paying under $10 an hour. Beyond that, only one or two had anything to do with AI.
Edit: actually, Fiverr is more a marketplace for those hiring. This is bounties, so its closer to Craigslist - esspecially given the lack of moderation or verification.
It’s probably a system for laundering money, then.
Where are they getting real money to pay people?
Look! Another FLOC of door knobs! No, definetly not a pigeon! That’s a door knob!
Sounds like Daemon (2006) by Daniel Suarez in which a decision tree established and runs a criminal organization to parasitize then displace nation-states by hiring talented people disaffected by corrupt governments.
Suarez rightfully notes that daemon had a better grasp on security
When chatbots die away they will qualify for government subsidies by showing the employees as excuse.
so like fiver but with ai?
faiver
do me a faiver, guv? lol
you should crosspost this to some fuckai comms
$30 an hour? uhh… Where do they offer these jobs again?
Just hit the big button marked “I’m a sucker who is about to get stiffed at the end of my shift”.
There is an interesting video on this by Upper Echelon.
Well researched video.
This is so, so cursed
Computer, end program.
Computer, exit.
…
*fuck*
I can’t do that, Hal.
Based on the mathematical capabilities of most LLMs I know, I can just fudge the numbers by an order of magnitude and the boss won’t know the difference.
