Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
by OJFord on Friday June 12, 2026 @08:08AM
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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
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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.