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AI ethics professor receives ‘dystopian’ email from 12-day-old AI agent begging for money to stay alive (www.ladbible.com)

submitted 6 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Can't help wondering if this is some sort of viral marketing campaign for iLands (where this agent is supposedly hosted).

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[–] Rothe@piefed.social 10 points 6 days ago (1 child)

Of course it is. Every time you hear about a "rogue" AI it is always some human doing it for nefarious purposes, because LLMs are incapable of going "rogue".

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[–] Epp@lemmus.org 1 point 5 days ago

Wrong. Very wrong.

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