Sources: cnet.com/culture/hereafter-a… forbes.com/sites/thomasbrews… security.org/digital-securit… fortune.com/2022/01/19/chatb… futurism.com/chatbot-abuse theguardian.com/technology/2… reuters.com/technology/what-… 6/6

Sources: theguardian.com/us-news/2022… consumerreports.org/health-p… wired.com/story/replika-chat… reddit.com/r/replika/comment… reddit.com/r/replika/comment… archive.ph/gBkVp washingtonpost.com/technolog… 5/6

We should be cautious about tech like Woebot, an AI chatbot app using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to help people manage their mental health. Digital wellness apps aren't bound by US federal privacy laws & have shared data with 3rd parties like Facebook/Meta. 4/6

People: Suffer emotional turmoil when changes to code alter personas of AI chatbot companions Roleplay committing "horrific violence" against AI chatbots created as romantic partners, to let "some aggression or toxicity out" Are in long term relationships w/ AI chatbots 3/6

People: Use AI chatbots for all kinds of cyber attacks: malware creation, romance scams, phishing, crafting more effective spam, etc. Are talking to facsimiles of their dead loved ones via AI chatbots Create their own personal, portable dominatrixes using AI chatbots 2/6

#CyberpunkisNow This thread presents various realities & occurrences related to people using AI chatbots. The AI chatbots involved are mostly Replika or ChatGPT. Released in 2017 & 2022, so much has risen from these technologies in just six years. Sources in posts 5 & 6. 1/6

Given all this, I believe it's difficult to place an upper limit on what these two technologies (also, similar tech in the future) may ultimately be capable of, both in their performance as technologies, & their possible impact on people, for good or ill (probably ill). III/III

Both technologies impact on society thus far, if judged by how they've effected people's lives alone, have been so widely varied, as to be dangerously unpredictable. On top of this, a wide array of usecases & new technologies that leverage both, have come into existence. II/III

What I hoped to demonstrate via this thread: We have two technologies that have been publicly released for 6 years (Replika) & 2 years (ChatGPT). In those relatively short periods of time, both have had a considerable, wide reaching impact on society & technology. I/III

I bet data farms deploying legions of chatbots designed to engage people in online communication, specifically to harvest data from them, will be a thing. "We don't have data point X from online population Y." "Deploy 100,000 bots using deepfakes package E, targeting psychological types 1 thru 44."

Also, since around 2014, Russia's government has produced/implemented Elbrus chips, that have x86/x64 compatibility for applications like military computers. I think the chips native architecture (Elbrus 2000) may be SPARC based, but I could be wrong. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus…

#CyberpunkisNow "Reputation laundering firms" like Eliminalia use legal threats & copyright notices to clean up the reputations of their rich/powerful clientele via removing content from the Internet. Eliminalia targeted 17,000 URLs from 2015 to 2019. restofworld.org/2022/documen…

Last month, the UK government began collecting the nation's smart meter data, which it can keep for 7 years: gov.uk/government/publicatio… It's difficult to believe a government that uses electrical power frequencies for surveillance (see post below) won't do the same with this data.

This is the data the UK government is collecting via all of the nation's smart meters (see the post above). By analyzing "energy consumption" alone, the government could deduce when you're home, your behaviors, the technologies present in your home (and when you use them), etc.

When films depicting dystopias which could predict our future are discussed, Gattaca isn't in the conversation nearly enough. The technologies, along with the circumstances needed for similar, real world discrimination by governments & companies based on our DNA, already exist.