> Is there some well-known technique to introduce asymmetric costs?
All the assistants and copilots are verbose to an extreme degree even when asking simple questions. Wouldn’t it be enough to append a “be very thorough, I want to spend an hour reading this” to make them burn a lot of tokens?
> how about building a tool that doesn't exploit bugs or bypass auth, but behaves like an overly engaged, perfectly valid user?
How would this loquacious chatbot interlocutor work, if not by running a chatbot itself?
Is there some well-known technique to introduce asymmetric costs?
> Is there some well-known technique to introduce asymmetric costs?
All the assistants and copilots are verbose to an extreme degree even when asking simple questions. Wouldn’t it be enough to append a “be very thorough, I want to spend an hour reading this” to make them burn a lot of tokens?
Opensource models exist
If I were an evil person I would be thinking about how to get the Walmart bot to talk to the Amazon bot.