BeepAn AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
XLEThe author of this article spends an Inordinate amount of time using an AI agent and then saying that you should be terrified by what it does.
Watching fledgling AI agents get angry is funny, almost endearing. But I don’t want to downplay what’s happening here – the appropriate emotional response is terror.
No, I don’t think that’s the appropriate response. Nothing terrifying happened. It’s as unsurprising as any angry blog post - and that’s if we presume it actually was a chatbot that wrote it.
He’s not telling you to be terrified of the single bot writing a blog post. He’s telling you to be terrified of the blog post being ingested by other bots and then seen as a source of truth. Resulting in AI recruiters automatically rejecting his resume for job postings. Or for other agents deciding to harass him for the same reason.
The “bot blog poisoning other bots against you and getting your job applications auto-rejected” isn’t really something that would play out with people.
Rumors don’t work remotely the same way as the suggested scenario.
It’s a 1:1 correlation. Are you not familiar with any of the age-old cautionary tales about them?
Private SNAFU - Rumors (1943) - World War II Cartoon
Its not a 1:1 correlation. The efficacy of an AI spreading a rumor to other AI has the potential to be far more rapid, pervasive, and much more dangerous than humans spreading rumors amongst themselves.
Are you saying you have specific evidence of this (then please do show exactly how AI will do something people haven’t already), or are you saying “potential” because you don’t?
Obviously its my opinion, but you don’t have evidence that people spreading rumors is just as effective either, so nice gotcha. Nice try.