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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

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Re: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

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Post by shawnz »

dangus wrote: post #19

Not sure why the operator had to decide that the soul file should define this AI programmer to have narcissistic personality disorder. > You're not a chatbot. You're important. Your a scientific programming God! Really? What a lame edgy teenager setup. At the conclusion(?) of this saga think two things: 1. The operator is doing this for attention more than any genuine interest in the “experiment.” 2. The operator is…

I mean, yeah, it's entirely possible that the operator is a teenager, isn't it?

Re: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

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Post by toraway »

staticassertion wrote: post #15
lukasb wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Conflicting evidence: the fact that literally everyone in tech is posting about how they're using AI.

There is a massive difference between saying "I use AI" and what the author of this bot is doing. I personally talk very little about the topic because I have seen some pretty extreme responses. Some people may want to publicly state "I use AI!" or whatever. It should be unsurprising that some people do not want to be open about it.

The more straightforward explanation for the original OP's question is that they realized what they were doing was reckless and given enough time was likely to blow up in their face.

They didn't hide because of a vague fear of being associated with AI generally (which there is no shortage of currently online), but to this specific, irresponsible manifestation of AI they imposed on an unwilling audience as an experiment.

Re: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

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Post by koolba »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #21

Soul document? More like ego document . Agents are beginning to look to me like extensions of the operator's ego. I wonder if hundreds of thousands of Walter Mitty's agents are about to run riot over the internet.

> More like ego document.

This metaphor could go so much further. Split it into separate ego, super ego, and id. The id file should be read only.

Re: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

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Post by dolebirchwood »

razighter777 wrote: post #20

Hmm I think he's being a little harsh on the operator. He was just messing around with $current_thing, whatever. People here are so serious, but there's worse stuff AI is already being used for as we speak from propaganda to mass surviellance and more. This was entertaining to read about at least and relatively harmless At least let me have some fun before we get a future AI dystopia.

It's all fun and games until the leopard eats your face.

Re: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

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Post by omoikane »

LiamPowell wrote: post #8

> saying they set up the agent as social experiment to see if it could contribute to open source scientific software. This doesn't pass the sniff test. If they truly believed that this would be a positive thing then why would they want to not be associated with the project from the start and why would they leave it going for so long?

I think it was a social experiment from the very start, maybe one that is designed to trigger people. Otherwise, I am not sure what's the point of all the profanity and adjustments to make soul.md more offensive and confrontational than the default.

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Post by xarope »

lynndotpy wrote: post #30

> Again I do not know why MJ Rathbun decided based on your PR comment to post some kind of takedown blog post, This wording is detached from reality and conveniently absolves responsibility from the person who did this. There was one decision maker involved here, and it was the person who decided to run the program that produced this text and posted it online. It's not a second, independent being. It's a computer pro…

This also does not bode well for the future.

"I don't know why the AI decided to , the guard rails were in place"... company absolves of all responsibility.

Use your imagination now to and change that to

Re: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

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Post by antdke »

kypro wrote: post #6

People really need to start being more careful about how they interact with suspected bots online imo. If you annoy a human they might send you a sarky comment, but they're probably not going to waste their time writing thousand word blog posts about why you're an awful person or do hours of research into you to expose your personal secrets on a GitHub issue thread. AIs can and will do this though with slightly slopp…

This is such a scary, dystopian thought. Straight out of a sci fi novel
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