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Post by mcphage »

munificent wrote: post #303

A key difference between humans and bots is that it's actually quite costly to delete a human and spin up a new one. (Stalin and others have shown that deleting humans is tragically easy, but humanity still hasn't had any success at optimizing the workflow to spin up new ones.) This means that society tacitly assumes that any actor will place a significant value on trust and their reputation. Once they burn it, it's…

> Accenture is definitely not the company that enabled Enron. Definitely not.

That one always breaks my brain. They just changed their name! It’s the same damn company! Yet people treat it like it’s a new creation.

Re: An AI agent published a hit piece on me

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Post by lt_kernelpanic »

quantified wrote: post #424
wellf wrote: post #389

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This applies to all news articles and propganda going back to the dawn of civilization. People can lie is the problem. It is not a 2026 thing. The 2026 thing is they can lie faster.

The 2026 thing is that machines can innovate lies.

Which brings us to low-cost lying at scale.

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Post by ed_mercer »

rahulroy wrote: post #307

I'm not sure how related this is, but I feel like it is. I received a couple of emails for Ruby on Rails position, so I ignored the emails. Yesterday out of nowhere I received a call from an HR, we discussed a few standard things but they didn't had the specific information about company or the budget. They told me to respond back to email. Something didn't feel right, so I asked after gathering courage "Are you an A…

Did it sound like a bot from eleven labs?

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Post by zmmmmm »

This should be a legitimate basis for legal action against whoever empowered the bot that did it. There's no other end point for this than human responsibility.

Many of us have been expressing that it is not responsible to deploy tools like OpenClaw. It's not because others are not "smart" or "cool" or brave enough that not everyone is diving in and recklessly doing this. It's not that hard an idea to come up with. It's because it's fundamentally reckless.

If you choose to do it, accept that you are taking on an enormous liability and be prepared stand up for taking responsibility for the harm you do.

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Post by afthonos »

falcor84 wrote: post #455
afthonos wrote: post #412

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Either human is a special category with special privileges or it isn’t. If it isn’t, the entire argument is pointless. If it is, expanding the definition expands those privileges, and some are zero sum. As a real, current example, FEMA uses disaster funds to cover pet expenses for affected families. Since those funds are finite, some privileges reserved for humans are lost. Maybe paying for home damages. Maybe flood…

If you're talking about humans being a special category in the legal sense, then that ship sailed away thousands of years ago when we started defining Legal Personhood, no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person

Yeah, none of this is new. I’m just saying we should acknowledge what we’re doing.

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Post by FeteCommuniste »

consp wrote: post #562
maplethorpe wrote: post #520

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> This was a really concrete case to discuss, because it happened in the open and the agent's actions have been quite transparent so far. It's not hard to imagine a different agent doing the same level of research, but then taking retaliatory actions in private: emailing the maintainer, emailing coworkers, peers, bosses, employers, etc. That pretty quickly extends to anything else the autonomous agent is capable of d…

> They're probably adding guard rails as we speak. Why? What is their incentive except you believing a corporation is capable of doing good? I'd argue there is more money to be made with the mess it is now.

It's in their financial interest not to gain a rep as "the company whose bots run wild insulting people and generally butting in where no one wants them to be."

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Post by almosthere »

wussboy wrote: post #390
b8 wrote: post #356

Getting canceled by AI is quite a feat. Won't be long that others will get blacklisted/canccled by AI and others.

I find my trust in anything I see on the Internet quickly eroding. I suspect/hope that in the near future, no one will be able to be blacklisted or cancelled, because trust in the Internet has gone to zero. I've been trying to hire a web dev for the last few months, and repeatedly encounter candidates just reading responses from Chat GPT. I am beginning to trust online interviews 0% and am starting, more and more, to…

I actually think the longer people stay online, the less trust the real society will have too. Online = Zero Trust. Real Life in America = Pretty Incredibly High Trust in 1990, 2025 = Crashing Trust in America

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Post by cortesoft »

themanmaran wrote: post #626
_23sd wrote: post #94

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Isn't there a fourth and much more likely scenario? Some person (not OP or an AI company) used a bot to write the PR and blog posts, but was involved at every step, not actually giving any kind of "autonomy" to an agent. I see zero reason to take the bot at its word that it's doing this stuff without human steering. Or is everyone just pretending for fun and it's going over my head?

Github doesn't show timestamps in the UI, but they do in the HTML. Looking at the timeline, I doubt it was really autonomous. More likely just a person prompting the agent for fun. > @scottshambaugh's comment [1]: Feb 10, 2026, 4:33 PM PST > @crabby-rathbun's comment [2]: Feb 10, 2026, 9:23 PM PST If it was really an autonomous agent it wouldn't have taken five hours to type a message and post a blog. Would have been…

Depends on how they set it up. They probably put some delays on the actions so they don't spend too much money.
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