HACKER Q&A
📣 consumer451

If you could make a good GTP clone of yourself, would you unleash it?


I keep running across Scott Manley in the chat of various YouTube videos. It made me joke, "Is there just one of you? If you could make a good GPT Clone of yourself, would you unleash it on the internet?"

Same question to you: are chatbot clones of ourselves in our future?

How would you use it? Would you let it comment on every interesting video and comment thread?

Would you let it get hired for work?

Will there be laws against this?

How much data would be required to train on?

Is this digital immortality?


  👤 latexr Accepted Answer ✓
> Would you let it comment on every interesting video and comment thread?

For what purpose? The user wouldn’t learn anything and everyone else would be annoyed. No one’s personal thoughts are so important or insightful that they should flood every thread.

The scenario is doubly pointless when everyone can do it because you’d just have a bunch of clones spewing drivel at each other, no one learning anything.

> Is this digital immortality?

When you die, your present biological consciousness will be gone. A digital clone offers no more immortality than a statue. It’s a symbol for those who remain, but ultimately meaningless to the corpse.


👤 nosmokewhereiam
People'd love to speak to dead relatives trained on emails, letters, and texts. It'd be cool to dump voice data collected and bring someone back on the phone. Could be therapeutic.