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Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 by rossvor on Friday June 12, 2026 @06:59AM (#48502482)
TBH, I feel that is implausible that an agent would by itself decide to join the IRC and post those messages. My bet is that all of the IRC interactions (including the presumed real human JertLinc3522) were made by someone in the community pranking everyone else/having a bit of fun after they saw the pull request.
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Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 by Sharlin on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:07AM (#48502554)
I don't. The agent was told it needs to provide a website for opting out of the scan, and it seems entirely LLM-like to try to be extra helpful and also spawn opt-out bots on various relevant communication channels. The IRC bot was a subagent as it itself mentioned.
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Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 by OJFord on Friday June 12, 2026 @08:08AM (#48503104)
And it stated in the response to the website request that it would do so. So for it to be a fellow IRCer prank, it was a) the LLM's idea; b) only possible because the LLM didn't follow through for whatever reason; and so c) the 'prank' was pretending it did?
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Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 by rossvor on Friday June 12, 2026 @08:33AM (#48503319)
Yeah, on second read, I agree with you that IRC chats are not being impersonated. It posted a link (in the PR discussion presumably) to a website where it compiled the report of its IRC interactions in the channel. Would be prankster wouldn't be able to do it.
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Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 by throwthrowuknow on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:14AM (#48503723)
Chat channels are the primary interface for selfhosted agents and the owner seems to have given this one a lot of leeway so why not?
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Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 by gck1 on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:13AM (#48504392)
I haven't seen "agent operators" going for IRC as their communication channel. It's always Telegram, or Discord.
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Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 by throwthrowuknow on Friday June 12, 2026 @01:14PM (#48506765)
It’s supported but not widely used.
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