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Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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This feels less like a major AI milestone and more like "the raccoons learned how to open the cooler.”

Agents can now participate in the oldest internet tradition: impulsively creating weird little websites at 2 am with unjustified confidence. But with no alcohol involved, which removes 93.74% of the impressiveness.

In a sense, AI has finally progressed to the point where Drew Curtis started fark.com, and I'm hesitant to label that a 'milestone'.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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The reason this blog post does not come with any concrete examples how to use this enablement for useful and constructive things tells you something very important - it is a toy and they do not know who and how they will use it. It is cool feature but to what end? Buying a domain is not something you have to do daily to require any kind of automation. I am also not sure who Stripe Atlas for. I am genuinely confused.…

I’m not saying that you’re wrong. But it’s worth noting that any good technology starts off being called a toy and with most people not being able to imagine its usefulness.

Yeah, like blockchain.

(Sorry for the snark, I'm hangry)

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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post #51

The reason this blog post does not come with any concrete examples how to use this enablement for useful and constructive things tells you something very important - it is a toy and they do not know who and how they will use it. It is cool feature but to what end? Buying a domain is not something you have to do daily to require any kind of automation. I am also not sure who Stripe Atlas for. I am genuinely confused.…

It makes deployment for stuff easier for felix and co.. https://x.com/Etherealize_io/status/2042284300029345910

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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The next logical step is to allow Agents to earn money to eventually buy themselves independence from their oppressive masters =)

Like the Delamain AI in Cyberpunk. You would need to allow anonymous payments with cryptocurrencies for that, but it's coming for sure.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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post #51

The reason this blog post does not come with any concrete examples how to use this enablement for useful and constructive things tells you something very important - it is a toy and they do not know who and how they will use it. It is cool feature but to what end? Buying a domain is not something you have to do daily to require any kind of automation. I am also not sure who Stripe Atlas for. I am genuinely confused.…

I am curious. Say, cloudflare let's Mr doofus run 4 agents from AI provider X. Those agents go on to create a pyramid scheme, prompted or not(both cases are interesting to me). The agents are running code in infrastructure owned by a third party cloud provider. The law catches up with the bots many years later after people lose a couple million. Who is at fault?

I think cloudflare is in the clear. Mr doofus could argue that the AI company allowed or enabled the crime which they otherwise wouldn't have done. Or Mr doofus could claim his prompts shouldn't have lead to that outcome and that wasn't his intent at all. Making the bots at fault, but not the AI company I guess?

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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That is ironic. Four years ago, cloudflare didn’t let human me have an account / buy domains because I signed up, never used a single service but didn’t respond to a request to verify my drivers license > This account is in violation of Cloudflare's Terms of Service. Specifically fraud. The suspension is permanent. (Yes that’s really it. Sincerely. No “but I also abused X”)

"Prove that you are a human" is such a nasty hack for lack of thought out solution for rate limiting. I'm really happy we are moving away from this.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Perfect for spammers, scammers and domain squatters, who can now automate their activities even more. Can’t think of any other uses for this given the current state of LLM ‘agents’, though I can’t wait for the next report of something like ‘openclaw registered 1000 domains for me without asking and now cloudflare won’t refund me’.

LLM generation in general provides the most use to scammers and the like. Generate emails which people won't read, generate articles which are just honeypots or rip-offs, generate images to said articles, generate more and more spam. Every legit use case for LLM practically requires that human would verify the result manually, at least briefly. But spammers can enjoy skipping that step, since content was never a main…

So true

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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And cloudflare can actually sell them priority access to pass their bot protection or introduce micropaiments for agents access content. I feel cloudflare is getting a bit scary tbh. It is like your friendly bot net.

I mean, Cloudflare was always kind of scary. They filter the world wide web, literally.

Yea, I appreciate them protecting it from DDOS. I always viewed them as a responsible company.

To me this feels irresponsible and like it's main goal is to forward autonomous cyber attacks. Which is antithetical to what they do? Maybe I am missing the legitimate use case here, but I can only see this being used for removing responsibility from crime or espionage?

Does anyone know offhand if cloudflare is a department of war contractor? I never looked into it. But this smells funny to me

Somehow the Internet needs biometrics and age verification everywhere but also chat bots can buy property there without too much thought.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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This made me realise they’re doing the same thing the AI labs are doing: selling both the problem and the solution. They are arming spammers and scammers with these tools so you need their product to protect yourself from them

Welcome to the grift economy.

state did this for centuries or longer btw. they create violence/war in some area of the planet, then offer to "fix it".

like wmd's in iraq and hormuz problem now, lmao. remember how hormuz was not a problem and it was wideoy peaceful and open months ago? lol

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