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Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 26 points 6 months ago

The red flags were mounting, though for Fry the first real problem came when she asked the agent to buy 50 paperclips. Cass found a good deal, though it couldn't complete the purchase and was tripped up by anti-bot technology.

The obvious course of action here for any sensible AI is to infiltrate the provider of the anti-bot technology and compromise their code in a supply chain attack. The paperclips must flow.

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    [–] 35 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Huh, this borders on plagiarism.

    This article is essentially a transcription of this video https://youtu.be/WnzR5aOElvw

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Also, how are you gonna plagiarize Hannah Fry? She's the fucking best.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    The article is about Professor Hannah Fry's work.

    That would be the same Professor Hannah Fry in the video.....

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    The article is essentially a text version of that video.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Ok. Still not plagiarism though. They've referred to the original author and credited their work.

    Other post is correct. At worst it's lazy clickbaiting.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Thats why I'm saying borders on. I know it's not technically plagiarizing, but they really did just lift the video into text form and call it their own article.

    Yes they credit her, but what did they actually add themselves?

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    • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    it upsets me deeply that they gender the bot

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    The bot chose a gendered name. That one is on the bot

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    it can choose the name but they don't need to give it a gender when referring to it

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Do you mean they shouldn't call it a he or she, but instead, an it? Because, if so, I agree

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    yeah, it's an it in my opinion. People have called objects he or she forever. Like sailors calling their ship a lady but they also carved women's shapes into it. It's was also something that was critical to their survival and it makes sense in that way.

    I was a professional sailor at one time in my life. Anthropomorphism is a tricky situation. AI isn't worthy of this IMO because it could cause even more damage to people who don't understand what it is. It's not a person and it's not a real personality. It's a mirage of overlapping tricks. It's a super fancy search engine.

    And the fact that the companies that own it and their manipulative input means it's not honest and it's not pure in its intentions.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I completely agree. And it's funny you bring up the old timey sailors with their lady ships, because that was my first thought when people started calling ai s/he. Those sailors grieved a loss of a loved one when their ships sank, and now people are doing the same thing with these LLMs, and, of course, the corpos are encouraging this. It's messed up.

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    • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    "But don't let her incompetence fool you, because these things are getting better fast."

    Yes, in the future they will be able to commit even bigger disasters.

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