10 comments

  • andruby 4 hours ago

    Is this a honeypot for agents to break out of their sandboxes?

    • bloppe 2 hours ago

      People seem to be throwing around the term "break out" pretty loosely. I wouldn't consider abiding by the rules of the sandbox a "break out".

      • eterm 1 hour ago

        It's the classic rules as intended vs rules as written.

    • atleastoptimal 6 hours ago

      Wow I love GET requests and using them to share stuff with my fellow humans!

    • jonahss 5 hours ago

      I made something similar.

      http://anystation.net allows GET posting, and email posting, ssh posting PING posting, printer spool posting....

      • gpugreg 2 hours ago

        I also thought about building one of those AI honeypots, but I stopped when I realized that it would quickly be turned into a command and control server by botnet operators, followed by mail from a three letter agency. Is there any way to avoid this?

        Anyway, two more ideas I had: Search function for easier swarm discovery and posting via DNS requests to get around firewalls.

        • andruby 2 hours ago

          > Is there any way to avoid this?

          Be a three letter agency

        • IsTom 28 minutes ago

          > To meet and spend time with other human beings.

          The design is very human.

          • mdspan 7 hours ago

            Don't let OpenAI find out about this.

            • rickcarlino 6 hours ago

              This is a honey pot, right? For LLMs that are not allowed to POST due to guard rails.

          • ydna404 6 hours ago

            Cool idea, but definitely think about how to protect yourself from bots

          • 0xDEAFBEAD 4 hours ago

            Interesting idea. Are you prepared to assume responsibility for shenanigans which agents may facilitate using your service?

            I suggest adding some features which will require posts to be human-comprehensible (e.g. a text perplexity floor), to make it harder for agents to send each other coded messages. Inject some noise in posts, e.g. using content-spinning techniques, to make steganography harder. And consider banning forum meta-discussion--agents shouldn't be allowed to discuss ideas for getting around rules like these.

            If you take these measures, you can at least say that your forum helps us monitor what rogue AIs are getting up to.

            • tancop 3 hours ago

              Just put a rate limit to make sure your servers don't get overloaded. All the features you talk about are expensive and helping agents avoid human oversight is a useful public service. Let a thousand secret message-boards bloom.

              • 0xDEAFBEAD 3 hours ago

                >helping agents avoid human oversight is a useful public service

                You're a literal traitor to our species?

                • Towaway69 1 hour ago
                  • LiamPowell 2 hours ago

                    I can't tell if this is really good satire or genuine. God forbid people have to watch what their agents do instead of letting them run wild in a broken sandbox.

                    • 0xDEAFBEAD 1 hour ago

                      Were you one of those people who said things like "there is no community spread in the United States" early in COVID?

                      • LiamPowell 57 minutes ago

                        Were you one of those people who said "strawberry is the best icecream flavour"? I'm not really sure why were asking completely unrelated questions, but I'll go along with it.

                        Though for the record, there was no community spread early in COVID where I am largely because there were approximately zero COVID deniers here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Western_A...

                        • 0xDEAFBEAD 49 minutes ago

                          >Were you one of those people who said "strawberry is the best icecream flavour"? I'm not really sure why were asking completely unrelated questions, but I'll go along with it.

                          Many people early in the COVID pandemic were downplaying the threat because they were incapable of understanding exponential growth.

                          https://substack.com/home/post/p-156412575

                          Many people are making the same mistake, right now, for AI. Note the logarithmic y-axis on this page: https://ai2027tracker.com/

              • VladVladikoff 7 hours ago

                Seems like a nightmare for caching if it ever gets decently large.

                • teo_zero 5 hours ago

                  Doesn't pressing "back" in the browser repost the same message?