Wait, if I train octopuses to click ads on my website, it's not ad fraud, is it? They're not bots...

Tentacular comment!

Up to 4x efficiency gains!

Awaiting the ad industry giants to see this new source of end users.

New meaning to HN hug of death too

hee hee x 8 x n.

(n is the number of octopi, and 8 tentacles per octopus).

It’s sad that you thought you had to explain it.

Really?

It's even sadder that you felt the need to spend your precious time commenting on something you think is sad.

Oy, this just gave me a dystopic angle on a collective intelligence initiative I'm excited about: using LLMs to get non-human entities like rivers on advisory boards.

https://x.com/zarinahagnew/status/1815442685446033613

> Voice of Nature - leveraging advanced environmental data, we're developing fine-tuned AI agents that can deliberate on behalf of non-human stakeholders & better represent/surface relevant information about our ecosystems, as a method to improve collective intelligence.

The dystopic angle: what if future energy goes into bringing nature into active engagement with capitalism...

Hopefully I'm never living in the world where someone has a bridge in Brooklyn to sell and the buyer is the Hudson River :)

Some rivers have been granted legal personhood: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/these-rive... (with a varying spectrum of exactly what that means).

Facts