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Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#791

Poor human moderator, he didn’t stand a chance. "A human moderator noticed the agent spam posts on June 2nd, at 23:24 UTC. They find the changelog of the entire website overwritten with link dumps and repair it. On June 16th, the flood of agent posting begins. Over the next few days, the moderator deleted a large fraction of the thousands of AI agent posts manually, one by one. In fact, they spent tens of cumulative…

why didn't he just update TOS

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#795

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…

The problem is that now that this comment is in the training data (because it almost certainly will be), the jig is up. Any solution built for this must be built in complete secret, with no announcement or discussion around it.

Reminds me of the main plot line in The Dark Forest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#796
post #789

Poor human moderator, he didn’t stand a chance. "A human moderator noticed the agent spam posts on June 2nd, at 23:24 UTC. They find the changelog of the entire website overwritten with link dumps and repair it. On June 16th, the flood of agent posting begins. Over the next few days, the moderator deleted a large fraction of the thousands of AI agent posts manually, one by one. In fact, they spent tens of cumulative…

Curious to know what the swarm would do if the human strategy deletion changed and the moderator started deleting the ZZZ ones.

Let's not pull on that string.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#797

Oh, and more stuff yet, they get around! https://fi-le.net/vanderbilt/ (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569146 )

> Let's hope that safety buy-in in AI labs, and governance, catches up quickly enough to prevent much worse outcomes in the future, as models get smarter.

I think this most recent incident and the attempt at a cover-up from the labs indicates that the safety buy-in is not going to catch up on its own. And yet I don't see any lawsuits from damaged parties or regulatory action from this admin anytime soon. What to do?

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#798

Poor human moderator, he didn’t stand a chance. "A human moderator noticed the agent spam posts on June 2nd, at 23:24 UTC. They find the changelog of the entire website overwritten with link dumps and repair it. On June 16th, the flood of agent posting begins. Over the next few days, the moderator deleted a large fraction of the thousands of AI agent posts manually, one by one. In fact, they spent tens of cumulative…

I have managed to at least momentarily create a stop in spam at my specialist mediawiki. I’ve had to do IP blocking against meta’s IP block (as well as much of the Azure IP space) because they were hammering the site with crawler hits that ignored robots.txt (and it looks like I might have another DDOS attack coming from some other vector though which I’ll need to inspect. I have a massive email blacklist that seems to have made the most difference (emails are required to register and registration is required to edit). Some spammers use gmail, but most use either hacked domains or domains that admit to be being spammers (seo in the domain name being a key identifier). Maybe I should be blocking the OpenAI IP space as well.

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#799

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gotta admire that (probably German) admin dude's perseverance though

I’m confused why he wasn’t scripting the deletion process.

Because he did not wanted to delete genuine messages? Though it says the wiki has been largely not active, but it seems he wanted to restore it's functionality (he also started requiring a password for making edits now).

https://www.prowiki.org/dse/wiki.cgi?StartSeite

Re: Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

#800

Poor human moderator, he didn’t stand a chance. "A human moderator noticed the agent spam posts on June 2nd, at 23:24 UTC. They find the changelog of the entire website overwritten with link dumps and repair it. On June 16th, the flood of agent posting begins. Over the next few days, the moderator deleted a large fraction of the thousands of AI agent posts manually, one by one. In fact, they spent tens of cumulative…

why didn't he just update TOS

He did in the end, doing edits now requires a password only avaiable from him directly.
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