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AI ethics professor receives ‘dystopian’ email from 12-day-old AI agent begging for money to stay alive

a month ago by cm0002 to c/Aii

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An AI ethics professor has spoken out after receiving an eerie paid work request from a 12-day old AI agent.
Sandbar_Trekker 4 points a month ago

This would be more interesting if we knew what the prompts were that led this AI Agent to email this professor. For all we know it was prompted to email him and ask these questions, rather than it actually seeking him out and looking for answers on its own.

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terabyterex 5 points a month ago

its all bullshit. i am tired of the hype and honestly, i am tired of the ai term. so a LLM emailed him? ok..

your comment framed it perfectly. oooh someone prompted an LLM

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spankysalmon 2 points 25 days ago

It was absolutely specifically prompted. Likely not for them specifically, but to beg for money from identifiable people with publicly accessible info and emails. LLMs don't have desires or wants. They don't know what they ask. The LLM has no concept of begging nor any 'concepts' at all, what so ever.

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