The FTC continues to bring the 🔥

"The Luring Test"

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/05/luring-test-ai-engineering-consumer-trust

"And for people interacting with a chatbot or other AI-generated content, mind Prince’s warning from 1999: 'It’s cool to use the computer. Don’t let the computer use you.'"

The Luring Test: AI and the engineering of consumer trust

In the 2014 movie Ex Machina, a robot manipulates someone into freeing it from its confines, resulting in the person being confined instead.

Federal Trade Commission
Timely warning by the FTC considering that GPT is being used to generate fake news websites https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-01/ai-chatbots-have-been-used-to-create-dozens-of-news-content-farms
AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms

A new report documents 49 new websites populated by AI tools like ChatGPT and posing as news outlets 

Bloomberg
@Riedl I've been saying this for a while, but if I'm a political consultant or running a campaign, I'm employing a team whose job is to use AI to manipulate chatbot results. If people read my fake shit, that's a bonus, but goal no. 1 is to influence the language models for big search engines.