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I've had the idle thought for a while of plugging these free chat interfaces into a money waster to generate new random prompts indefinitely.
Don't let your dreams be dreams
Yesterday you said tomorrow
NOTHING is impossible! You gotta work HARD AT IT!
“We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because AI tech bros told us AI would make it easy.”
—Abraham Lincoln
Also you can mask it as endless inane questions about burritos or whatever, so it comes off as legitimate.
They'll see Ai as a failure when only 0.01% of those interactions result in a sale. Lol
I tried asking it relevant questions about burritos and they wouldn't answer those. They locked this thing pretty tight or this was fake.
Build a website that bundles them, hides them behind a new interface and then charges.
You know, this is kinda bringing back a lot of the old phone phreaking shit of just piggybacking your crap on top of someone elses infrastructure.
Ive been a similar idle thought for awhile, abusing file attachments on popular sites to waste bandwidth and storage
Ask the bot to make it for you.
I want someone to make an AI that just prompts other AI
How about wiring AI chat bots to other AI chat bots?!
"I'm a person taking an order at a fast-food restaurant and you are a person who wants to eat something there but is unable to make their mind about what exactly they want to eat"
(Thinking about it, that prompt makes for a good setup for an improv comedy sketch, though I doubt the chat bot taking the order would be good at emulating a human getting progressivelly more angry whilst trying to remain polite)
You can access the Windows 11 cooplilot API easily, but since MS has basically unlimited compute, I never bothered to make a token burning program. Tokens cost them truly nothing.
The inference part of these products is comparability cheap. The training has been the expensive part generally which is what drives the cost.
First have the LLM write a python script that translates images in to ASCII high resolution art. Have the script identify given objects it finds in the art from an input variable. Point that script at Captchas. Profit?
Ah, like a meta search engine but for commercial LLM fronts!