FYI, this was sent as an experiment by a non-profit that assigns fairly open ended tasks to computer-using AI models every day: https://theaidigest.org/village

The goal for this day was "Do random acts of kindness". Claude seems to have chosen Rob Pike and sent this email by itself. It's a little unclear to me how much the humans were in the loop.

Sharing (but absolutely not endorsing) this because there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding of what this is.

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beached_whale 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sorry, cannot resist all the AI companies are not "making" profit.

Seriously though, it ignores that words of kindness need a entity that can actually feel expressing them. Automating words of kindness is shallow as the words meaning comes from the sender's feelings.

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jph00 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I got one of these stupid emails too. I’m guessing it spammed a lot of people. I’m not mad at AI, but at the people at this organisation who irresponsibly chose to connect a model to the internet and allow it to do dumb shit like this.

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eichin 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wait, so someone took the "virus fishtank" from https://xkcd.com/350/ and did it with LLMs instead?

	▲	Applejinx 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yup. It's certainly an art project or something. It's like setting a bunch of Markov Chaneys loose on each other to see how insane they go. …kind of IS setting a bunch of Markov Chaneys loose on each other, and that's pretty much it. We've just never had Chaneys this complicated before. People are watching the sparks, eating popcorn, rooting for MechaHitler.