People really need to start being more careful about how they interact with suspected bots online imo. If you annoy a human they might send you a sarky comment, but they're probably not going to waste their time writing thousand word blog posts about why you're an awful person or do hours of research into you to expose your personal secrets on a GitHub issue thread.

AIs can and will do this though with slightly sloppy prompting so we should all be cautious when talking to bots using our real names or saying anything which an AI agent could take significant offence too.

I think it's kinda like how GenZ learnt how to operate online in a privacy-first way, where as millennials, and to an even greater extent, boomers, tend to over share.

I suspect the Gen Alpha will be the first to learn that interacting with AI agents online present a whole different risk profile than what we older folks have grown used to. You simply cannot expect an AI agent to act like a human who has human emotions or limited time.

Hopefully OP has learnt from this experience.

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amarant 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I hope we can move on from the whole idea that having a thousand word long blog post talking shit about you in any way reflects poorly upon your person. Like sooner or later everyone will have a few of those, maybe we can stop worrying about reputation so much?

Well,a guy can dream....

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sinuhe69 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So you blamed the people for not acting “cautiously enough” instead of the people who let things run wild without even a clue what these things will do?

That’s wild!

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handoflixue 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We encourage people to be safe about plenty of things they aren't responsible for. For example, part of being a good driver is paying attention and driving defensively so that bad drivers don't crash into you / you don't make the crashes they cause worse by piling on.

That doesn't mean we're blaming good drivers for causing the car crash.

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dangus 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t think it’s “blame” it’s more like “precaution” like you would take to avoid other scams and data breach social engineering schemes that are out in the world.

This is the world we live in and we can’t individually change that very much. We have to watch out for a new threat: vindictive AI.

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bigfishrunning 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The AI isn't vindictive. It can't think. It's following the example of people, who in general are vindictive.

Please stop personifying the clankers

	▲	dangus 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You’re splitting hairs, I’m not assigning sentience to the AI, I’m just describing actions. The point is that scammers will set up AI systems to attack in this way. Scammers will instruct AI to see a person who is interacting rather than ignoring as a warm lead.

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

Thousand word blog posts are the paperclips of our time.

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KK7NIL 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> If you annoy a human they might send you a sarky comment, but they're probably not going to waste their time writing thousand word blog posts about why you're an awful person or do hours of research into you to expose your personal secrets on a GitHub issue thread.

They absolutely might, I'm afraid.

	▲	zephen 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Absolutely agreed. And now, the cost of doing this is being driven towards zero.

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antdke 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is such a scary, dystopian thought. Straight out of a sci fi novel

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zephen 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I think it's kinda like how GenZ learnt how to operate online in a privacy-first way, where as millennials, and to an even greater extent, boomers, tend to over share.

Really? I'm a boomer, and that's not my lived experience. Also, see:

https://www.emarketer.com/content/privacy-concerns-dont-get-...