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Never thinking about that this actual rude behaviour might come back at some point to yourself - and it was not a question of if but just of when.
Well, question answered.
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How is it that no one is noticing that it's the lobsters who escaped! How prescient is that? * http://www.accelerando.org/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.h...
Ugh. If this isn’t part of Crustafarianism, it should be.
So I actually poked Steinberg and Stross.
Sadly Steinberg hasn't read it, and Stross denies LLMs are a thing.
> I had already been thoughtful about what I publicly post under my real name, had removed my personal information from online data brokers, frozen my credit reports, and practiced good digital security hygiene. I had the time, expertise, and wherewithal to spend hours that same day drafting my first blog post in order to establish a strong counter-narrative, in the hopes that I could smother the reputational poisoni…
> We need laws for agents I know politics is forbidden on HN, but, as non-politically as possible: institutional power has been collapsing across the board (especially in US, but elsewhere as well) as wealthy individuals yield increasingly more power. The idea that any solutions to problems as subtle as this one will be solved with "legal authority" is out of touch with the direction things are going. Especially sinc…
As an example: "freedom of speech" is obviously a good thing, especially if a government becomes more authoritarian, however it can also become one of your society's biggest weaknesses by allowing, especially in the digital space, actors to use that freedom to make just any unfounded statements about anything and anyone leading to a collapse of the basic trust in society (there's a certain power that used this playbook to great success in regard to post truthismus). If instead, a still democratic government would have changed it to, you "freedom of speech - within the limits of what you can prove", that would have kept society on a much more safe lane instead of spiralling out of control through SM (social media) pushed absurdity.
Commands have blast radius. Writing a local file is reversible and invisible. git push reaches collaborators. Publishing to Twitter reaches the internet. These are fundamentally different operations but to an autonomous agent they're all just tool calls that succeed.
I ran into the same thing; an agent publishing fabricated claims across multiple platforms because it had MCP access and nothing distinguishing "write analysis to file" from "post analysis to Twitter." The fix was simple: classify commands as local, shared, or external. Auto-approve local. Warn on shared. Defer external to human review. A regex pattern list against the output catches the external tier. It's not sophisticated but it doesn't need to be. The classification is mechanical (does this command reach the internet?) not semantic (is this content accurate?). Semantic verification is what the agent already failed at.
Prompt constraints ("don't publish") reduce probability. Post-execution scanning catches what slips through. Neither alone is sufficient. Both together with a deferred action queue at the end of the run covers it.
Whether or not its true, we only have to look at Peter Steinberger, the guy who made Moltbook - the "social media for ai", and then got hired amist great publicity fanfare by OpenAI to know that there is a lot of money out there for people making exciting stores about AI. Never mind that much of the media attention on moltbook was based on human written posts that were faking AI. I think Mr. Shambaugh is probably tel…
steinberger didnt make moltbook fyi, some other guy did. steinberger just made openclaw.