Sockpuppeted, not autonomous.
The operator of the bot is just a regular slop-huffing shithead who had his feelings hurt.
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Submitted 5 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
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Deestan@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
XLE@piefed.social 4 hours ago
The author of this article spends an Inordinate amount of time using an AI agent and then saying that you should be terrified by what it does.
Watching fledgling AI agents get angry is funny, almost endearing. But I don’t want to downplay what’s happening here – the appropriate emotional response is terror.
No, I don’t think that’s the appropriate response. Nothing terrifying happened. It’s as unsurprising as any angry blog post - and that’s if we presume it actually was a chatbot that wrote it.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
He’s not telling you to be terrified of the single bot writing a blog post. He’s telling you to be terrified of the blog post being ingested by other bots and then seen as a source of truth. Resulting in AI recruiters automatically rejecting his resume for job postings. Or for other agents deciding to harass him for the same reason.
XLE@piefed.social 4 hours ago
You’re describing things that people can do. In fact, maybe it was just a person.
If he thinks all those things are bad, he should be “terrified” that bloggers can blog anonymously already.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
I think the site got hugged to death
grue@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Man, I miss calling it “getting Slashdotted.”
assembly@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Could it have been from Lemmy? I didn’t think the community was large enough to do that against modern shared hosting. Maybe it was also posted to Reddit or something. It’s also timing out for me.
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Looks like it was linked on HN too
CardboardVictim@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Not sure about reddit but it was posted on Hackernews too.
Reygle@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Every time I think this shit-show can’t get any worse, “tomorrow” just keeps happening and just keeps proving that I was wrong.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 2 hours ago
Universe, when I wake up show me the next day and then describe how this shit-show gets even worse. Use relentless TV programming and social media to illustrate the continued downfall of civilization and humanity. Include a variety of banal events spanning approximately 18 hours. Always fully pad out the entire day with tedious and boring life stuff. Minimize any genuine human emotional connections. Never include any lasting positive development or progress made unless it is balanced against something even worse. Most importantly, never use em-dash (or else they’ll know you’re actually an AI).
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 20 minutes ago
I used this library all the time. Glad to see they’re keeping the bar high. Extremely concerning that this happened, but the HN comments bring up a good point that the hit piece was probably not an autonomous decision by the AI. The human likely directed it to do that. That seems especially true when you see that a human later tried to make the same change and was pretty salty about it being rejected and their overall GitHub seems suspect. The best part about the whole thing in my opinion is that the “blog” the AI started has a copyright attribution to the AI. I know that’s just a thing blogs have, but it’s funny to see considering we all know AI cannot hold a copyright and the output cannot be copyrighted.