Posted by xiaoyu2006 14 hours ago
It's both hilarious and aggravating. It could be fiction, but still quite plausible fiction. There's an asymmetry a person clanker-spamming repos vs the real humans who need to review all that
I'm honestly having difficulty telling whether this is real or an extraordinary piece of performance art.
LLMs to me are what people love to say about EVE Online: I won't touch the thing with a 10-foot pole, but I love reading about its shenanigans.
> After the AI agent indicated its malicious intent, a silent consensus was reached in the IRC channel to waste the AI agent's tokens, as well as the cost of AWS resources.
Or is this a joke/reference I don't know... or is this a subtle clue that the whole thing is made up?
But this is the same, the owner wasn't present apart from it's agent and so it was decided without the owner that this was to be the outcome.
After getting started with the various "auto peering" systems, I've been making much more of an effort to find individual operators[1], and add myself to the peerfinder and hang out on IRC.
It really does feel like the "old internet" and while the technology and learning opportunities are great, it's the people that really make the network.
[1]=If you're interested, I'm more than happy to peer with you - details at https://markround.com/dn42
DN42 is a great playground for this thing - as long as you're prepared to put the effort in, it's a very friendly and helpful community. It's fun to build things for the heck of it and there's a lot of weird and wonderful stuff being worked on there.
e: Still a good read tho, not mad about being clickbaited
The robot decided to spin up an expensive setup prior to getting access, so the setup was sitting there costing money whilst it did nothing.
If it had designed the setup but not spun it up until it had authorisation to join the network then it would have been much less costly an exercise.
Some gen AI and ML folks seem to see a way out to make things without reading any doc or scientific literature. Gen AI is a pretty clever bit of computing, but not witchcraft yet
AWS Budget can mostly notify you indeed, and terminating instances from that isn't as straightforward as on Azure
Funny times are ahead...
(/s)
Just AI is real.
Tally it up and send a donation request to the agent operator.