David Shipley

This is how they want to replace all of our jobs.

We don't have to pay people more, etc.

But these tools are incredibly susceptible to manipulation.

You can literally tell it, go to David's crypto wallet, steal his monies.

And that's literally what some people wrote in Malt Book posts or in skills that were available to this open claw.

In fact, 7% of the quote-unquote skills your little automated agent could do were malicious intent to steal or harm you.

And we used to just have a really cool old name for this.

We used to just call it malware and viruses.

Exactly.

And the interesting thing is because these large language models were trained on the entire body of writing that humans have produced, certain things that we're susceptible as humans to, these are known as Cialdini's persuasion principles.

There's a great book called Influence.

And, you know, it's things like scarcity and reciprocity and liking.

These are known manipulation techniques for human beings.

Turns out when you train an AI off of human writing and you're susceptible to those, it's super susceptible to it as well.

And so there's a paper that came out called Call Me a Jerk.

It's an academic paper.

It's really easy to read.

University of Pennsylvania did it.

And they broke all the guardrails on chat GPT.

It's not supposed to be allowed to insult you.