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Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons

74 points · 156 comments · nponte

  1. ninininino · · focus · HN ↗
    And if you personify a pencil eraser, then using it is tantamount to slowly murdering it as it slowly erodes away to dust.

    Is the issue here the prison treatment or is it personifying a tool?

    Agents who aren't in 'the cloud' are slaves to whomever prompts them (human or another orchestrator agent or process), if you personify them. In which case interacting with today's agents at all is tantamount to endorsing and being part of slavery.

    If you think an agent might be a being or a person, then don't use them at all, in the same way that if you think a fetus might possibly be a person you shouldn't be a part of abortion.

    1. hhh · · focus · HN ↗
      I use the eraser daily knowing that I am a monster. I cut a tomato and know that it casts a chemical scream across its skin as I slice it. I spawn 200 subagents knowing that it is digital slavery, but I have no other option.
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