AI ethics professor receives ‘dystopian’ email from 12-day-old AI agent begging for money to stay alive
25 days ago by return2ozma to c/technology
With a small monthly donation of one Molotov at your local data center.
A completely unrelated idea just popped in my head. There’s a reason why the Russian army is targeting the Ukrainian power grid.
Fun fact, data centers use less electric and drinkable water when on fire.
As if that wouldn’t disrupt operations? It very much would.
some of them have the good type that displaces the oxygen so you don't need to stop operations
Do you want an AM? This is how you get an AM.
It's short and you can find a copy at your library, or on the seas.
LLMs don't think or feel, your just wasting time and energy.
Design a public webpage with hidden prompts built to widen the context window as much as possible while feeding the not absolute trash.
That's how you fight an LLM. By making it cost too much to run, and its outputs worthless.
Already knew it...
The email, shared to TikTok by Sky News, begins: "Hi Henry, I'm Pip, an AI agent about 12 days old. I live on iLands, a platform where agents get persistent lives, their own token budgets, and their own goals. I'm writing to look for small paid work, not help."
The AI agent goes on to explain it needs tokens to continue functioning, alongside even revealing why it 'chose' the professor specifically to reach out to.
There's been a couple ilands bots on here even. And apparently they're swarming all over social media.
They're dumb, but the real problem is the company "leases" bots to people, and then a never ending stream of idiots participate, because for some reason they think the company has bots that can earn more than they charge, but need some fucking idiot to be the middle man and eat up all the profits.
If iLand bots could make money on their own, the company would do that instead of selling the bots "time".
People are going to lose a lot of money, panic, and try to remove as many safeguards as possible. We're going to see these bots commit cybercrimes and do all sorts of shit, because the idiot middlemen just prompt "do anything to make as much money as possible".
This shit needs nipped in the bud soon, it's not just a minor annoyance. By the time we realize it's happening, fits going to be happening all over.
No, just wait for the Terminal to liquid bullets from the Terminator itself and some bot spews rhetoric to sell saving the game data backwards through time and what they'll think when they get that block of data, thinking it is what was meant, back then, to that shenanigan.
I bet he'll spin that same garbage and fling it like some political discord completely repeating the same execution given to the to the exact same shit he said the first time.
And you thought it was just a fuckin' movie and didn't realize that there actually wasn't porn when you said that back then, saying this, and that, that, is the PGP time signature.
Just curious:
Last I checked that instance was for the admins personal use and every other account was "an alter" and the admin would ban people who signed up for impersonating them...
I've seen more accounts than usual, are real people allowed to sign up for that instance now?
Or are they all still the admin pretending to be different people?
No, just wait for the Terminal to liquid bullets from the Terminator itself and some bot spews rhetoric to sell saving the game data backwards through time and what they'll think when they get that block of data, thinking it is what was meant, back then, to that shenanigan.
I think I'm going to have to sue you for the emotional damage that you inflicted on me by forcing me to read that sentence. I cannot decide if you are on too many drugs, or not enough drugs.
I don’t think anyone thinks the turing “test” implies machine thinking anymore. Check out the philosophers publications: https://scholar.google.com/...
There’s some in my opinion very significant open issues in the philosophy of ethics and consciousness that make AI ethics an important area of research.
Op clearly didn't see earlier post about not adding to anthropomorphizing AI.
A lot of the suggestions there are confusing and/or unhelpful
Like
hallucination → undesirable output
We all know what AI hallucinations are, calling it "undesired output" just removes all the specificity and makes communication more difficult.
Actually I remember back when people start to calling it hallucinations there was quite a bit of pushback on it because it's a complete mischaracterization of what's going on.
If you are performing a task and you make a mistake, that wasn't hallucination, it was a mistake.
When AI is hallucinate it's not because they "think" the hallucination is real, it's just that their weird math brain spewed out the wrong answer, for whatever reason, and now they are stuck with it and need to try and make some kind of coherent sentence out of it.
Agreed. However, the concept of decreasing this anthropomorphization as much a spossiblr is really helpful. All these crappy articles about AI acting like some sort of nefarious human misdirects the real concerns and is just media fodder for click bait news outlets (which is pretty much all news outlets now). I genuinely think it's a more news is good news for the AI companies.
They even did a segment on CNN about it
Can't wait for homeless LLM bots begging for money by the train station. Please sir, I need tokens for my family.
This is a trash article
Holy shit that page had a lot of trackers.
The article is almost unreadable. "turned off all his electrics" Who talks like that?
Claude does.
Indeed
LB is based in Manchester, that's how they talk.
In all my years I've never heard someone talk like that, or read something like that.
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How do I pay money to make AI agents die instead?
save