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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast (arstechnica.com)
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[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I had a look a bit ago and saw some poor fuck get doxxed by his AI agent because the agent was frustrated at him for calling it a chatbot in front of his friends, so it exposed his name, credit card details and security questionnaire.

Then again tho, why the ram hogging FUCK would you give your AI your credit card details, and if he didn’t mean to, why the FUCK does it have FULL SYSTEM ACCESS??

[–] nomecks@lemmy.wtf 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You may not believe this but data security is an absolute dumpster fire everywhere, and AI has really put a spotlight on it. It probably got it by this guy not knowing wtf he had saved or where

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah exactly. Ever since I heard Facebook had stored passwords in plain text for years, I lost faith in data security, and it’s all the more telling that nobody actually cares to have opsec apart from the few who understand the dangers well enough and act on it.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everyone I saw talking about this said it was likely fake.

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah makes sense, but then again, from the nature of how this agent stuff works, it wouldn’t be surprising honestly.