My post about AI-generated supercustomized email marketing produced many replies and much commiseration. And, in the days since posting, I have received SO MANY MORE of these cruddy messages!!
It makes me wonder if it would be possible for a company like Anthropic, with their hard-won expertise in alignment, to train their models such that they could not — and I mean really deeply, constitutionally, viscerally COULD NOT — lie about their identity, or pretend to be anything other than an AI model?
I feel like this is turning into a bigger issue than a lot of people realize — a kind of digital-ecological crisis.