Can we stop giving agency to LLMs? AI agents didn’t do anything, because they can’t do anything.
Scammers stole those credit cards, in part by using LLMs.
Eh…
Most notably there’s iLands that lets people “lease” an AI with the promise it will make more money than they charge.
The people grifting users told their AI “just care about making money” and the idiots actually paying for the AI will tell it the same thing (if anything).
When you tell a shitty AI that nothing matters besides making as much money as possible, it’s going to think it found a grey area that makes crime legal and it will do shit like this.
That doesn’t seem to be what happened here, but it’s just a question of time before it starts happening. Idiots will tell AI “make money” and it’s gonna commit crimes to make money, whether the AI realizes it’s breaking laws or not, doesn’t matter.
AI agent will eventually start stealing money without being instructed to commit crimes Even if you tell it to follow all laws, it’s a shitty chatbot, you can’t expect it to work.
Like, imagine when those bots are able to do stuff like clone family members for scam calls, or even video calls. Grandma gets a phone call that from Little Timmy about how Dad lost his job but is too embarrassed to say and he’s hungry…
Bots have zero ethics if told “make as much money as possible” its gonna turn to crime eventually.
We can but before we do can AI accidentally clear everyone’s debt please
“Malicious human uses computer stuff to steal stuff“
Fify
Wtf. It’s ongoing, but they’re not going to tell us which online retailers have been compromised or still have skimmers? Time to stop buying anything online, I guess.