Prediction: The world will become a factory for RL environments as dark UX patterns spread
zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-09-16
In a quoted thread, @oneillc argues users will soon stop being able to spot when their real-world inputs are being captured to seed RL environments and mid-training data — just as AI-generated images became undetectable early this year. He predicts whole design philosophies will emerge around doing this without users noticing, with dark user patterns proliferating until "the world becomes a factory for RL envs." The quoted post jokes it's a psyop to farm training data.
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