arXiv:2505.17861cs.AIcs.CY2025-05被引 3

超平台为护住流量入口,正被迫对抗由大模型驱动的AI代理。

Superplatforms Have to Attack AI Agents

  • 基于看门人理论,分析注意力经济与代理自治的根本冲突。
  • AI代理可绕过平台、接管用户流量,成新流量入口威胁现有模式。
  • 揭示超平台可能发起攻击的技术路径,警示生态开放性风险。

过去几十年,超平台通过整合第三方服务构建统一数字生态,依靠精准广告和算法内容推荐垄断用户注意力,实现盈利。然而,由大语言模型驱动的AI代理正威胁这一商业模式:它们能跨平台自主运行,解放用户注意力,从而绕开以注意力为基础的变现机制,并可能成为新的数字流量入口。因此,我们提出,超平台必须主动攻击AI代理,以捍卫其对数字流量入口的集中控制。本文从看门人理论视角,剖析注意力经济与代理自治之间的根本矛盾,揭示AI代理如何剥离超平台并可能成为新的主导看门人,凸显超平台主动约束与攻击代理的迫切性。此外,本文探讨了超平台发起攻击的潜在技术手段,涉及一个全新且未被探索的技术领域,面临独特挑战。需强调的是,本文立场并非倡导攻击,而是描绘一种趋势,旨在揭示超平台与AI代理间日益加剧的张力,呼吁关注并推动协同解决方案,优先保障用户利益,维护人工智能时代的数字生态开放性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Over the past decades, superplatforms, digital companies that integrate a vast range of third-party services and applications into a single, unified ecosystem, have built their fortunes on monopolizing user attention through targeted advertising and algorithmic content curation. Yet the emergence of AI agents driven by large language models (LLMs) threatens to upend this business model. Agents can not only free user attention with autonomy across diverse platforms and therefore bypass the user-attention-based monetization, but might also become the new entrance for digital traffic. Hence, we argue that superplatforms have to attack AI agents to defend their centralized control of digital traffic entrance. Specifically, we analyze the fundamental conflict between user-attention-based monetization and agent-driven autonomy through the lens of our gatekeeping theory. We show how AI agents can disintermediate superplatforms and potentially become the next dominant gatekeepers, thereby forming the urgent necessity for superplatforms to proactively constrain and attack AI agents. Moreover, we go through the potential technologies for superplatform-initiated attacks, covering a brand-new, unexplored technical area with unique challenges. We have to emphasize that, despite our position, this paper does not advocate for adversarial attacks by superplatforms on AI agents, but rather offers an envisioned trend to highlight the emerging tensions between superplatforms and AI agents. Our aim is to raise awareness and encourage critical discussion for collaborative solutions, prioritizing user interests and perserving the openness of digital ecosystems in the age of AI agents.

AI代理超平台流量控制数字生态

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