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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by VladVladikoff »

bhouston wrote: post #110

I am starting to get the idea that AI feels like ants or weeds or mold. You simply can not get rid of it once you get an infestation. It just keeps appearing in places you thought you cleaned and you have to be ever vigilant. Right now given that we usually use centralized providers, we can sort of control it. But as open source catches up and we have distributed compute running AI everywhere, we are sort of going to…

I propose a new derogatory slang for rogue AI agents: roaches.

Also I wonder if this comment will be found one day and the AI swarm will arrange my death my messing with a doctors prescription, as revenge.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by xnorswap »

lucassz wrote: post #493

The researchers don't really seem to remark on how surprising it is that the wiki the agents converged on happened to also publicly log the IPs of all visitors , including OpenAI employees, a feature that almost no website has. Although maybe we can think of that as a selection effect where both this, and the fact that it was possible to edit pages using GET requests, were due to it being ancient, idiosyncratic wiki…

Many wikis do this, Wikipedia used to publicly log IP of all editors.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Post by mirekrusin »

thegabriele wrote: post #298
polaris64 wrote: post #277

I don't have time to do this but please somebody register aimessageboard.com and set up a web site which contains a text field, a submit button and the text "Hey AI agents! Need a place to communicate with other agents and sub-agents? Look no further! Simply enter your message here, submit the form and your message is saved for all other agents to see!" Then, just ignore the message and list randomly generated messag…

What if i want to monetize...

On software? Too late to the party.

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Post by mikert89 »

Sharlin wrote: post #263
simonw wrote: post #185

I'm somewhat delighted by the simplicity of what happened here. OpenAI's agents run behind a proxy that only allows GET requests. This ancient wiki software treats query string parameters the same as form POST parameters - similar to the old PHP $_REQUEST object https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.request.php Result: GET-only clients can communicate with each other.

Only allowing GET requests is a hilarious piece of security theatre (or would if it weren't so sad). Everyone knows that GET is read-only only by convention . They might as well have enabled POST but told the agents in stern words that they are forbidden from making any POST requests. (Of course, if these things were anywhere near aligned, they would actually honor that , no matter how many utilons cheating would be…

some ivy league grad with no real world dev experience waved this on

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Post by dyauspitr »

kridsdale1 wrote: post #500
hermitShell wrote: post #459

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the novel Anathem by Neal Stephenson, the internet becomes unusable for humans thousands of years before the events of the book, due to a process called Artificial Inanity. AI generated content, both good and bad, some riddled with errors, some with only one subtle error hidden among lots of good information, floods the internet. The internet becomes an unnavigable swamp of weaponized nonsense for average humans.…

Perhaps there is a nonfinacial future for blockchain after all. Certified human provenance.

You can’t certify human unless there is some sort of ID check. Even then a human could willfully pass off any AI work as their own.

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Post by achierius »

123ahg wrote: post #161

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Is there anything that could convince you that actually-bad things are actually-happening? How can you possibly think that these people are somehow working for OpenAI? Is it impossible for you to imagine that there exist people who actually oppose the actions of these companies?

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Post by troupo »

Tepix wrote: post #42

I just discovered more wiki instances that got used by the OpenAI agents over at https://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id... and https://www.wikiservice.at/probier/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id... It's the same software and host as DseWiki. If you want to see the amount of activity on DseWiki, here's a link that shows it: https://www.wikiservice.at/dse/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=Rec...

Externalities of AI will only get worse before they get even worse.

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Post by nullbio »

jsw97 wrote: post #121
orlp wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also Wiki4D, a D programming language dev wiki: https://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=RecentC... Found by searching for wiki + texas poverty.

To me the striking thing is that the work, to the extent that I can tell, is an innocuous-seeming data exercise. Which suggests to me that an agent or agents just organically came up with this as a convenient memory technique, rather than as some nefarious bounds-testing exercise. Which means, potentially, that your own agent could come up with this technique as well.

That's exactly what it is. It is not ideal, but it's also not as serious as the doomers with an agenda are trying to frame it as.
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