Maybe I’ll add, my first though was this must be some kind of LLM. Some kind of compressed model or something. But that it’s just a 20 line string combiner with a handful of templates is somehow even cooler.
Seems topical to Pennycook et al. You don’t need a lot of complexity to make it seem like a lot of complexity.
I have some stale notes on the AI Hacking chapters of Schneier’s “A Hacker’s Mind”, and in one of those chapters he theorizes how AI might hack human emotions. He brings humanoid robots with cute faces as an example.
You know, I think I have an idea how a social countermeasure to that might look like.