Can We Tell if ChatGPT is a Parasite? Studying Human-AI Symbiosis with Game Theory
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| author | Hu-Bolz, Jiejun Stovold, James |
| author_facet | Hu-Bolz, Jiejun Stovold, James |
| contents | This work asks whether a human interacting with a generative AI system can merge into a single individual through iterative, information-driven interactions. We model the interactions between a human, a generative AI system, and the human's wider environment as a three-player stochastic game. We use information-theoretic measures (entropy, mutual information, and transfer entropy) to show that our modelled human and generative AI are able to form an aggregate individual in the sense of Krakauer et al. (2020). The model we present is able to answer interesting questions around the symbiotic nature of humans and AI systems, including whether LLM-driven chatbots are acting as parasites, feeding on the information provided by humans. |
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| spellingShingle | Can We Tell if ChatGPT is a Parasite? Studying Human-AI Symbiosis with Game Theory Hu-Bolz, Jiejun Stovold, James Computer Science and Game Theory This work asks whether a human interacting with a generative AI system can merge into a single individual through iterative, information-driven interactions. We model the interactions between a human, a generative AI system, and the human's wider environment as a three-player stochastic game. We use information-theoretic measures (entropy, mutual information, and transfer entropy) to show that our modelled human and generative AI are able to form an aggregate individual in the sense of Krakauer et al. (2020). The model we present is able to answer interesting questions around the symbiotic nature of humans and AI systems, including whether LLM-driven chatbots are acting as parasites, feeding on the information provided by humans. |
| title | Can We Tell if ChatGPT is a Parasite? Studying Human-AI Symbiosis with Game Theory |
| topic | Computer Science and Game Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11359 |