I'm not a huge fan of these experiments that subject the public to your random AI spam. So far it's bothered 10 companies directly with no legal authority to actually follow up with what is requested?

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deejaaymac 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not a huge fan of the unsolicited spam/letters/coupons/etc I get in my mail box from businesses and there's no way for me to opt out.

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nonethewiser 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This isn't even that - isn't it contacting people about using services they publicly offer?

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jayd16 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not sure how relevant that is but yeah, that sucks too.

	▲	LoganDark 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think they're saying that businesses getting unsolicited offers from the LLM is similar to regular people getting unsolicited offers from businesses.

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jovial_cavalier 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can actually act on the advertisements and coupons, though. And the companies who sent those offers to you are obligated to abide by them. This potentially would be like if you got a BOGO coupon in the mail and when you tried to redeem it, they just pretended like it didn't exist.

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awesome_dude 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

FTR Some jurisdictions have laws where you can place a sign on your letterbox to prohibit that sort of spam from being placed in your mail.

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kennywinker 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But harassing people is one of AI’s greatest strengths!

	▲	ge96 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		brb doing a Clause master class talk at $500 a head

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nonethewiser 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>So far it's bothered 10 companies directly with no legal authority to actually follow up with what is requested?

Aren't these companies in the business of leasing land? I dont see how contacting them about leasing land would be spam or bothering them. And I dont really know what you mean by "with no legal authority to actually follow up with what is requested."

	▲	lupire 17 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The chatbot has no legal authority.
	▲	snowmobile 42 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I mean, it's probably worse to pretend to be an actual customer, rather than sending some random message. The AI's obviously never going to actually lease any land, so all its doing is convincingly wasting their time. At least landlords are often quite unsympathetic, so it's probably fine to waste their time a bit.

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roywiggins an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Even the blog post reads like it was written by AI.