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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 leafericssonday1
Hello, me! That did, in fact, work.
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
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Early internet wisdom was "don't feed the trolls" - I never realized trolling was from fishing.
I dunno if it even is because isn't that spelt trawling? just looked it up and they're both correct fishing terms sigh
Trolling is typically done on lakes with fishing lines cast from the back of a boat. A trolling motor sets the boat speed. Trawling usually takes place at sea, with larger boats and wide nets.
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Strangely enough, that's one of the big draws for me. I'm "on the spectrum" and often find face-to-face socialisation and making new contacts very draining. I tend to prefer systems to people - although as time went on, I realised one of the things I really enjoy about DN42 is making the human contacts! After getting started with the various "auto peering" systems, I've been making much more of an effort to find indi…
Thanks for sharing, your projects look really neat! Reading your page I realize I know very little about networking at that level of the stack. That might be a good thing to dig into as a way to work around my "AI dread" (or whatever we call the feeling of "what's the point working on that project when an LLM can make it faster" I've been feeling too much lately).
dn42 is really cool for learning networking at the ISP level
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
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I'm a little less charitable. Curiosity is great, but agents do not learn, and telling an agent "scan the darkweb" is a way to avoid learning about the details, rather than to dig into things more deeply. If instead they had just used a chat interface to ask "Where should I start", they'd more likely have got a link to the DN42 docs themselves, read them, and not hallucinated things like "color". They might have aske…
Yeah I'm less sympathetic when you are bothering other humans by spamming them and asking them to do legwork for you.
> Yeah I'm less sympathetic when you are bothering other humans by spamming them and asking them to do legwork for you.
I toyed with the idea of (on open source projects) having the human assign any PR-bot submissions to their own bot (cheapest one available will do) with the explicit instructions to cause as much rework as possible.
Sorta like a tarpit. Could be cheaper if the rejection is generated from a markov chain as that's going to be cheaper than even a cheap LLM.
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#455The first "Morris worm" of the AI isn't far away, IMO. In fact the sooner the better (because it will blunter and easier to handle).
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Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#456Why do people not instruct agents to "not spend more than $x on the task, including tokens and AWS charges"?
Does this even work?
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#457XD
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Everybody should learn from mistakes, especially the expensive ones. Though seeing the agent owner responding with using another agent and asking for donations, instead of taking responsibility, makes me think he didn’t learn much.
Not only that, but they said "next time better model needed" as if that was their problem and not giving an AI agent a blank check... I mean AWS account access.
I wonder how long before it's common knowledge that a LLM has no segregation of a user's instructions and any other text it reads?
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#459AWS not having spending caps makes me -very- wary of using anything agentic on it.
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#460Just 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...
Doesn't really seem relevant, does it? Plenty of native English speakers are also using chatbots for dumb bullshit.