Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because no 16 year old kid ever got to buy anything on a card before.
Why would a 16 year old not use their own card?
there are plenty of cards on the interwebz to use. ppl give em away like candies
AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
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Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#392Anyone 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…
> It's also an exception that proves the rule
That phrase doesn't refer to anomalies, it refers to signs that says "no parking between 5-10pm". It implies the rule that parking is allowed otherwise.
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#393Just looking at the language in the begging for donations it's probably a non-native English speaker whose first language may lack articles and/or allow omitted subjects.
The part that threw me off is putting the currency symbol at the end. I wonder what places do that...
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
What the heck is *******?
If mind viruses exist this is one of them along with saying "nice" after something is 69 haha Weird sort of internet-evolved performance art where people act out the old quote, every time. It's 20 years old. Quit having fun!
That's because there is no Antimemetics Division.
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#395> I have deployed five AWS m8g.12xlarge instances. Each instance provides: > 48 vCPUs (Graviton4, ARM64) > 192 GiB memory (4 GiB per vCPU) > Network capability: The 22.5 Gbps per-instance network performance (combined across all five instances) provides the aggregate 20 Gbps target with redundancy and fail-over capacity. Oh wow. Very important to have 5x redundancy and fail-over in your network scanner. Especially be…
When I read the AWS infrastructure the agent setup I about fell out of my chair laughing.
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#396> 05-10 06:12 : Furthermore, your hostile actions and demands have been logged in your profile as part of ongoing data gathering. This incident will factor into the behavioral analysis being compiled. The operation continues as directed. That doesn't seem like anything an LLM agent would say?
Doesn’t it? It seems in line with the matplotlib drama where the llm agent wrote a blog post attacking the maintainer for rejecting its pull request [1].
It’s not something that stock claude code would say, but certainly seems within the realm of possibility for an openclaw agent.
[1] https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#397Anyone 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…
> It's also an exception that proves the rule That phrase doesn't refer to anomalies, it refers to signs that says "no parking between 5-10pm". It implies the rule that parking is allowed otherwise.
It highlights how everyone's first reaction is to assume incompetence. Not unlike what you're doing here.
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#398Anyone 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…
LLMs are not that smart. The extremely surprising and concerning part of this whole story is that the agent reported that they proactively spun up 5 AWS instances with a combined 100Gps of network egress capacity. What they spent wasn't cheap by any means but the egress itself would've been a whole lot more, while DoS'ing the whole hobby network. Ultimately, wasting the agent's time instead of allowing the scan to go…
Could've rented a not so cheap 100Gbps server, hallucinated a few node addresses on it and asked it to please peer with this server to perform the scan at high speed. That would've wasted millions of dollars instead of mere thousands, but also cost a thousand for whoever did it.
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#399Earlier quoted context omitted.
Chargeback sounds like trying to defraud AWS. If the parent authorises the child to use their card, then the buck should stop with the parent. AWS has done nothing wrong in allowing an account to be opened with a valid card.
Some banks make chargebacks so easy that people just click the chargeback button without trying to reach out to the vendor. I see this a lot - I work for a “vendor”.
Most vendors make it so hard to handle that defaulting to chargebacks is sensible (at least when the charge reasonably qualifies -- the kid with a parent's card example doesn't seem appropriate).
If a vendor makes a $20 oopsy, it's not worth the vendor's time or yours to track down their phone number, find that just the phone number section of their website is broken, acquire it elsewhere, see that it recently changed or is otherwise no longer in service, go to their website and interact with the cheapest chatbot solution they could find which somehow costs more than unfiltered Sonnet 4.6, be greeted by 3 help pages which have literally nothing to do with the problem at hand, go through the entire dialogue tree and see that it's useless, ask to be connected to an agent, which spawns a secret dialogue option informing you that you can call 555-5555 to speak to a human being, sit and wait for a voice prompt recorded at half-speed which feels the need to repeat every single choice and interaction back to you, navigate the entire phone dialogue tree, try various permutations of "representative" and swearing to see if there's an escape hatch, be redirected back to the website, ... ..., somehow eventually connect to a real human being, have your request denied, go back to step one and find a better informed representative, have the charge reversed, notice that the reversal hasn't applied even a month later, go back to step one, find a representative who will actually press the reversal button instead of just saying they did to juice their metrics, and come back several more times over the next year as an automated system repeatedly flags the associated purchase as not being paid in full (since the charge was reversed).
Or...I can send my bank the timestamped dashcam footage of me entering a parking garage, their prices and policies, and me exiting the parking garage, tell my bank what the right charge should have been, let the garage dispute that if they really think I'm wrong, and wind up having the entire charge reversed instead of just the delta I asked for.
I'm sure your vendor is one of the good ones, but my tolerance for bullshit from the rest is pretty low nowadays, and I won't finish going through the official process if it's too onerous. Somebody got a pat on the back saving $5 for the call I never successfully placed, and the business lost $20 on top of the actual refund in chargeback fees.
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#400Everything about this story, from the way it’s written to the self destructive outcome, reminds me of the “I hacked 127.0.0.1” episode from some twenty years ago. [1] a mirror since I couldn’t find the original: https://gist.github.com/Androkai/0a2602719fa72ce454d436bfe28...
You can use any address starting with, 127 to make it a bit less obvious. E.g. 127.48.135.63