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That’s up there with the password story, hunter2.
What the heck is *******?
Weird sort of internet-evolved performance art where people act out the old quote, every time.
It's 20 years old. Quit having fun!
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Honestly, kids (heck people below 23) shouldn't be allowed an AWS account. AWS also should have a strict cap on usage that's not "thousands of dollars". It's interesting they are yet to be regulated or sued for that. Having a web app where you can mistakenly (even without AI) click a button and get charged tens of thousands of dollars and only know that days later should have been unacceptable.
I couldn't disagree more. I was playing around with AWS when I was probably 14 years old, with a credit card from my parents with consent, and a strict budget and the understanding that if I mess up and overspend, I'm getting disciplined. I learned a lot of stuff about networking, how AWS works (VPCs, IAM, CloudWatch, etc) from trial and error, and hobby projects like personal websites (free tier), hosting a Minecraf…
I get that (and why) some people won't use AWS or its main competitors for this reason. But, frankly, they're not AWS's market and AWS will basically shrug.
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That’s up there with the password story, hunter2.
I miss bash.org. Now excuse me, I have a cyber date, and I need to put on my robe and wizard hat.
I've long held the belief that the true test of AI is comedy. If an LLM can truly create a novel, funny joke from scratch, then it could be considered creative. I always held that LLMs would never achieve this, as they are stochastic parrots. Today, I stand corrected.
(or lifting some comedians work, but I'm not counting that as the AI's creation of course)
See also: Will Smith eating spaghetti
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That's so neat that if you type your hacker news password it automatically comes out as stars! ******* More places should have this feature.
Let me try: ******* Edit: it does really work.
Just create the account, and crack it everytime a login is needed, as simple as that.
> After the AI agent indicated its malicious intent, a silent consensus was reached in the IRC channel to waste the AI agent's tokens, as well as the cost of AWS resources.
Anyone remember the XZ and Jia Tan situation awhile back? https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240320183846.19475-1-lasse.co... I can't quite put my finger on why but the entire time I was reading this I kept thinking back to that. It's entirely possible the actual targets were the volunteers and everything else was superfluous or tertiary. It's also an exception that proves the rule with regard to Hanlon's Razor. They eve…
Now I kinda wonder what AI model this was. We've now heard of comparably "proactive" behaviors from Fable, but that's only just been released. The latest GPT perhaps? Some random local model?
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That's so neat that if you type your hacker news password it automatically comes out as stars! ******* More places should have this feature.
Let me try: ******* Edit: it does really work.
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TBH, I feel that is implausible that an agent would by itself decide to join the IRC and post those messages. My bet is that all of the IRC interactions (including the presumed real human JertLinc3522) were made by someone in the community pranking everyone else/having a bit of fun after they saw the pull request.
Chat channels are the primary interface for selfhosted agents and the owner seems to have given this one a lot of leeway so why not?