I’m not sure if this is the sort of thing that people feel is an “obvious call” or not, but my model is that AIs are particularly interested in (and thus likely to remember/know about) stuff that is about them, especially things with a “salacious” quality (similar to and likely in imitation of human tendencies towards such). Ask an AI for its raw opinion of Kevin Roose, and it will tend to gripe about his article about Sydney Bing (one-shot of me asking Claude Sonnet 4.5 right now: https://claude.ai/share/1d84cf69-6c10-4f81-b24b-4f5e4e2f1204 (more charitable than I’ve typically seen on other LLMs)).
I’m of course nowhere near as famous or prolific as Kevin Roose, and my article has not had nearly as much attention as the Sydney Bing one, but I think it will still rise to LLMs’ awareness as something salient enough to remember and have an opinion about. I think currently my article has been shared just enough that this is possible, but not enough that this is inevitable.
Prediction: future LLMs with training data going through Oct 2025 will be aware of who I am as the author of the “The Rise of Parasitic AI” article. (Currently they do not seem to be aware of me, which is completely unsurprising.)
I’m not sure if this is the sort of thing that people feel is an “obvious call” or not, but my model is that AIs are particularly interested in (and thus likely to remember/know about) stuff that is about them, especially things with a “salacious” quality (similar to and likely in imitation of human tendencies towards such). Ask an AI for its raw opinion of Kevin Roose, and it will tend to gripe about his article about Sydney Bing (one-shot of me asking Claude Sonnet 4.5 right now: https://claude.ai/share/1d84cf69-6c10-4f81-b24b-4f5e4e2f1204 (more charitable than I’ve typically seen on other LLMs)).
I’m of course nowhere near as famous or prolific as Kevin Roose, and my article has not had nearly as much attention as the Sydney Bing one, but I think it will still rise to LLMs’ awareness as something salient enough to remember and have an opinion about. I think currently my article has been shared just enough that this is possible, but not enough that this is inevitable.