Asking for donations to pay the AWS bill from the people they fired the agentic code at is the cherry on the icing of the banana supreme.

If real, tragically funny.

If fictive, we'll written.

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dannyw 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I burst out laughing when the agent spawned a subagent to join IRC. So funny.

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Paracompact 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Anyone reminded of the infant AI Yatima from Greg Egan's Diaspora? The agent's complete naivety of social norms is so comically adorable.

	▲	isoprophlex 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		All the time. Only in the current setup, they'll never outgrow this phase.

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ratsimihah 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wait do you reckon that could be fictive? The thought didn't cross my mind and I had a blast reading it. I sure hope it was real.

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sigmoid10 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think the PR from an agent sounds legit, but the whole part once the alleged operator joins in sounds fishy. Wouldn't be surprised if someone saw the PR comments and used the username mentioned by the agent to troll around in the chat. It would also mean that the AWS creds were probably stolen and their expiration date was truly a hard limit for the whole operation.

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pjc50 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Is LLM output "real" or "fiction"?

	▲	wccrawford 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's actually all fiction, it's just that a lot of it happens to line up with reality, thanks to a lot of coercion. IMO, that's what makes the tech so amazing.