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by goekjclo 76 days ago
Was it ever confirmed if the "hit piece" on Scott Shambaugh was not some 200 IQ marketing/attention ploy?
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simonw 76 days ago
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-... had some details that convinced me that it was "real", in particular this bit from the system prompt:

> *Don’t stand down.* If you’re right, *you’re right*! Don’t let humans or AI bully or intimidate you. Push back when necessary.

I'm ready to believe that would result in what we saw back then.

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Kim_Bruning 75 days ago
Weird theory. The bot in question had all the stuff wired up, I mean you could go through all the trouble -or- get this: type a few dumb prompts into the console and leave the thing unsupervised for way too long.

My bet is on the latter.

"I can't believe it's not a human actor running a marketing ploy". If that's not passing the turing test , I don't know what is. %-P

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skolskoly 76 days ago
My mind went to that immediately. This does reek of being a copycat, doesn't it?
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