alt Hacker NewsAI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
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I really despise people like the author and those in the IRC who assume they must be correct that there is something malicious afoot and simply proceed to be equally if not more malicious in response.
This is unfortunately quite common among those types and not isolated at all.
with great power comes great responsibility
This is for real? Not a hoax? An LLM did all that on its own?
That was wild.
> i leave now to not disturb
:(
What a tale for our times, amazing write-up.
The take home message:
“While modern AI models have expressed some capabilities in certain fields such as coding, cybersecurity research, language translation, etc, no AI model is capable enough to replace the critical thinking and common sense of an actual human being.”
When the AI bubble pops, the collapse will be spectacular.
LOL get rekt
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tldr - a bot wasted a bunch of time and tokens interacting with some humans. The humans wasted even more time and effort trolling the bot. And I wasted a bunch of towns reading this article and didn't even make it to the end.
Fake news
As a millennial, my generation will be known for both experiencing the internet while it was still pure and also absolutely destroying it with AI.