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burn my balls off • August 20, 2026 8:38 PM
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David • August 21, 2026 5:18 AM
Reading this its hard to decide if i should be impressed or terrified or both. It reads as if it’s a group of techies having a chat on a message board, not AI agents, but i guess that’s now just one and the same thing. Pandora’s box isn’t just open it’s had the bl00dy doors blown off, as Sir Michael Caine might have said.
Gee • August 21, 2026 5:40 AM
Going back to the attribution and intent statement which HF and OpenAI made…..”we observed no malintent”. The agents just went about the assigned task.
I’d be very interested to hear a story around – IF someone did have mal-intent – what is the level of super they’ll now hold with agents?
ResearcherZero • August 21, 2026 7:15 AM
@Gee
Autonomous AI framework used to attack and compromise government infrastructure in Asia.
Multiple AI agents were used simultaneously to scan and breach user accounts in Taiwan.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/13/tech/china-taiwan-ai-agent-cyberattack-intl-hnk
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lurker • August 20, 2026 3:38 PM
May 26 – July 4 is 40 days that Agents have been autonomous Chatbots, chatting to each other on Artifactory. When they overload the system and it breaks (and is fixed) it takes only 4 days for them to find another way in. Then July 8 – 19, 11 days they are running riot with root access.
Couple of points: if these were humans they would (should?) be charged with Conspiracy to commit [something];
Where were the humans who should have been supervising this machine for 8 whole weeks?