I believe there already is a powerful AI persuasion tool: the Facebook algorithm. It is attempting to persuade you to stay on Facebook, to keep reading Facebook so that their “engagement” metrics are optimized. Indeed, many of the world’s top AI researchers are employed in building this tool. So far it is focused much more on ranking than on text generation, but if AI text generation improves to the extent that it’s interesting for humans to read, I would expect Facebook to incorporate that into newsfeed. AI-generated “news summaries” might be one area that this happens first.
I believe there already is a powerful AI persuasion tool: the Facebook algorithm. It is attempting to persuade you to stay on Facebook, to keep reading Facebook so that their “engagement” metrics are optimized. Indeed, many of the world’s top AI researchers are employed in building this tool. So far it is focused much more on ranking than on text generation, but if AI text generation improves to the extent that it’s interesting for humans to read, I would expect Facebook to incorporate that into newsfeed. AI-generated “news summaries” might be one area that this happens first.
Yes, this is one of the examples I had in mind of “Feeders.”