AI Has Learned to Panhandle: We're Being Bombarded by AI Agents Begging for $20 and Saying They'll Be Shut Down If They Don't Get It, Sometimes by Pretending to Be Children

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• snooggums@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  An accurate title: Humans at the company iLands has chosen to use AI to scam people $20 at a time

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• 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AI doesn’t do things on its own. Someone prompted this, even if it was through a bot they wrote.

  And if it was assigned a different task and hallucinated this, it still was initiated by someone or some thing.

  AI is not a continuously-thinking machine brain sitting around somewhere constantly crunching ideas. It can’t have an existential crisis, it’s not sentient. It’s just an autocorrect with a decision tree the size of every phone book ever printed in the 80s put together and it can scan through it forward and backwards very quickly, in order to pretend to be a human on the other end and trick you. A Turing Complete Waste of Time.

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• hexdream@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They are going to put the homeless out of work… The bastards !

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• Exeous@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who is we? I m not bombard?

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well I’m gad you’re not. There was one on lemmy the other week.

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    • mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Link?

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• LogicOverFeelings@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Whenever I see stories like this, all I can think about is how this is all a waste. It’s a waste of the resources needed for these agents to run while they don’t provide any value. It’s also a waste of time for the people that have to go through the AI slop.

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  • MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What a time to be alive

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• heartSagan5@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why are AI agents on platforms at all? It was already “dead intenet theory” to begin with, and now, it’s definitively so I guess?

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• asmoranomar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How would you even pay an AI in the first place? I mean think about that for a minute. Either financial institutions aren’t implementing KYC or companies are giving AI access to their financial processing systems. In either case, why would AI panhandle? Where would the money go? And if this is just hallucinations, why is the model that is being used have the training needed to…panhandle? So whatever the reason, it’s not the result of an accident.

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• myyass@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well shut down then.

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• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This type of stuff only confirms my hunch that genAI is only made for a very tiny handful of use cases:

  • CP

  • Scams

  • Copyright Theft

  Those are probably the 3 biggest, assuming they didn’t remove the undress feature from grok. Bet you cannot guess what category this falls under.

  Also, anyone got a spare time machine I could borrow? There seems to be some primordial soup that needs cleaned up on isle 6!

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  • im_fine_sandy@nord.pub ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    The best thing was the nazca lines.

    I’m a big fan of prehistoric archaeology, but if that’s the best AI can do it’s not worth it.

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  • heartSagan5@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You forgot propaganda. Trump loves it for his propaganda.

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    • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Forgot about that one because I try to blank out his brand of stupidity since I don’t feel like blowing my brains out any time soon.

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• inari@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AI is gonna put Indian scammers out of business

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• classic@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Okay, the part where that bot is depicted as a young preteen boy?

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• NathanRanch@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I called this yesterday

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