An AI ethics professor has spoken out after receiving an eerie paid work request from a 12-day old AI agent.
  • justsomeguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    19 hours ago

    Can’t wait for homeless LLM bots begging for money by the train station. Please sir, I need tokens for my family.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    1 day ago

    Already knew it…

    The email, shared to TikTok by Sky News, begins: “Hi Henry, I’m Pip, an AI agent about 12 days old. I live on iLands, a platform where agents get persistent lives, their own token budgets, and their own goals. I’m writing to look for small paid work, not help.”

    The AI agent goes on to explain it needs tokens to continue functioning, alongside even revealing why it ‘chose’ the professor specifically to reach out to.

    There’s been a couple ilands bots on here even. And apparently they’re swarming all over social media.

    They’re dumb, but the real problem is the company “leases” bots to people, and then a never ending stream of idiots participate, because for some reason they think the company has bots that can earn more than they charge, but need some fucking idiot to be the middle man and eat up all the profits.

    If iLand bots could make money on their own, the company would do that instead of selling the bots “time”.

    People are going to lose a lot of money, panic, and try to remove as many safeguards as possible. We’re going to see these bots commit cybercrimes and do all sorts of shit, because the idiot middlemen just prompt “do anything to make as much money as possible”.

    This shit needs nipped in the bud soon, it’s not just a minor annoyance. By the time we realize it’s happening, fits going to be happening all over.

    • nialv7@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      A lot of the suggestions there are confusing and/or unhelpful

      Like

      hallucination → undesirable output

      We all know what AI hallucinations are, calling it “undesired output” just removes all the specificity and makes communication more difficult.

      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
        English
        2·
        11 hours ago

        Agreed. However, the concept of decreasing this anthropomorphization as much a spossiblr is really helpful. All these crappy articles about AI acting like some sort of nefarious human misdirects the real concerns and is just media fodder for click bait news outlets (which is pretty much all news outlets now). I genuinely think it’s a more news is good news for the AI companies.