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2026-10-18 12:21 UTC

How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can’t Get? // Spamming the government, using a sick mother as leverage and threatening the small claims court. cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/tech@piefed.world/p/2037684/how-far-will-ai-assistants-go-for-a-refund-they-cant-get-spamming-the-government-using

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  • I’ve had great success using agents to play multiple accounts to get cheap shit of Facebook marketplace

    Open ##5295134

  • @RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip 2026-10-18 14:02

    This is essentially the “paper-clip factory” alignment problem. It’s good to remember that this same kind of behavior was seen in the hugging face hack and other similar hacks. Prompt agent to accomplish task -> agent “believes” it cannot accomplish it (this does not need to actually be true) -> agents context window begins fill -> agent’s initial prompt is condensed over time until it’s own training and guardrails fade into obscurity -> agent convinces a 13 year old in Luxemburg to jump off a bridge as a part of a large and very elaborate plan to get the developers of an npm package you’re using for your project to include a feature the agent is convinced it needs to complete its task

    Open ##5328573