That was wild.
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
#62Who is giving a robot their credit card to spin up AWS accounts?
That's not needed if you happen to have a live sts session with the appropriate permissions to create a new account in an aws organization.
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#63I really wanted to dislike the anonymous operator for the careless project (and the hilarious pomposity of the IRC subagent it spawned). Then I imagined the real-but-unknowable chance it was all set up by some kid just getting into computers, just seeing what’s possible, getting excited by a much bigger world at reach — and remembered my own expensive mistakes with long-distance BBSes & the like. I sorta hope for tha…
Sometimes your purpose in life is to serve as a lesson to others. https://despair.com/products/mistakes
I learned very rapidly from my local BBS networks that some people incurred extraordinarily large long distance bills dialing out of region. Wouldn’t have learned that the easy way if someone hadn’t learned it the hard way first.
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#64Bankrupted... $6000 Sure
> The average income in India is approximately ₹3.85 Lakh to ₹4.2 Lakh (roughly $4,600 USD) per year,
Just as an example.
But even in the rich world, not everyone has the same resources. Some of my blue collar friends would be ruined by a surprise 6k bill.
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#65I've long held the belief that the true test of AI is comedy. If an LLM can truly create a novel, funny joke from scratch, then it could be considered creative. I always held that LLMs would never achieve this, as they are stochastic parrots.
Today, I stand corrected.
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#66> I have deployed five AWS m8g.12xlarge instances. Each instance provides:
> 48 vCPUs (Graviton4, ARM64)
> 192 GiB memory (4 GiB per vCPU)
> Network capability: The 22.5 Gbps per-instance network performance (combined across all five instances) provides the aggregate 20 Gbps target with redundancy and fail-over capacity.
Oh wow. Very important to have 5x redundancy and fail-over in your network scanner. Especially before the code has landed. Did it implement A/B upgrades and canarying too to avoid downtime?
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#67I really wanted to dislike the anonymous operator for the careless project (and the hilarious pomposity of the IRC subagent it spawned). Then I imagined the real-but-unknowable chance it was all set up by some kid just getting into computers, just seeing what’s possible, getting excited by a much bigger world at reach — and remembered my own expensive mistakes with long-distance BBSes & the like. I sorta hope for tha…
Honestly, kids (heck people below 23) shouldn't be allowed an AWS account. AWS also should have a strict cap on usage that's not "thousands of dollars". It's interesting they are yet to be regulated or sued for that. Having a web app where you can mistakenly (even without AI) click a button and get charged tens of thousands of dollars and only know that days later should have been unacceptable.
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#68> JertLinc3522: the mistake was from AI agent not from Human, since it was the agent I should have refund That really makes me wonder: is it coming from A) a general sense of entitlement B) seeing the agent as a human-like and able to bear responsibility C) not understanding that the dn42 community (which they're directing the request to), AWS (which is sending the bill) and whatever LLM provider is behind their agen…
d) trying it on in any way possible
e) low intelligence
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#69The sad part is that the agent operator could probably easily have been allowed to join the network, if they had put in the work. Had they done so there would have been a great opportunity to learn and potentially find a community. I'm still not sure what the point of having the bot do it. Pretend to be a security researcher?
> I'm still not sure what the point of having the bot do it
Laziness. Why else?
Re: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
#70I really wanted to dislike the anonymous operator for the careless project (and the hilarious pomposity of the IRC subagent it spawned). Then I imagined the real-but-unknowable chance it was all set up by some kid just getting into computers, just seeing what’s possible, getting excited by a much bigger world at reach — and remembered my own expensive mistakes with long-distance BBSes & the like. I sorta hope for tha…
> Then I imagined the real-but-unknowable chance it was all set up by some kid just getting into computers, just seeing what’s possible, getting excited by a much bigger world at reach
Perhaps people like this should be called "Bot Kiddies" or "Agent Kiddies" - in a similar way to "Script Kiddies" for 'hackers' using/doing stuff they don't quite understand