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[โ€“] WhirlpoolBrewer@lemmings.world 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Holy crap, has anyone ever attempted to create an "AI fork bomb"? Go to one of these agent bots, and tell it to create accounts with the other agent code bots. These new accounts will all be told to create accounts on all the other code bots services. And do this recursively forever. So the flow would be 1 bot makes lets say 5 bots. Each of those 5 bots make 5 more bots. And each of those 5 bots make 5 more. So the total number of running bots becomes like 1 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5...

Obligatory, this is purely hypothetical, and you should never do this for legal reasons.

Sounds like a great idea, although no, commoners are not given the same privileges as capitalists. So I'm afraid there will be problems indeed.