I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm".
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@cwebber According to #Shadowrun the crash virus is still three years away.
https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Crash_Virus_of_2029
"Fun" fact: In Shadowrun the Crash Virus learned to kill humans who connected their brains to the net. It was the start of lethal internet input.
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place @bsmall2@fedibird.com @cwebber@social.coop From what I understand on an intellectual basis the root of the issue is that they refused to let it compost for long enough in the right conditions for it to fully complete and not have that issue.
It was probably within whatever norms have been established as “safe” but that didn’t exactly make it pleasant for anyone living downwind that particular day.
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@cmthiede @neurobashing @cwebber
Congratulations. You just pre-named it when it happens.
@pseudonym @neurobashing @cwebber sorry for not being more creative, I was fine with fiction staying that way
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@bituur_esztreym @lispi314 @cwebber this town's finished.
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@bituur_esztreym @lispi314 @cwebber this town's finished.
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@bituur_esztreym @lispi314 @cwebber it's a reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9OmTnuLzeQ
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@cwebber so I'm following this right, it sounds like the project or its maintainers don't even necessarily need to even be using LLM tools, the attack pattern simply targets contributors who are using LLM development tools? and so all that is really needed is for the payload to be subtle and the maintainer to be sufficiently overwhelmed (say, by an endless fire hose of LLM-generated liquid shit slop pull requests)?
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@bituur_esztreym @lispi314 @cwebber it's a reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9OmTnuLzeQ
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@cwebber apropos of nothing, is pottery still a big deal for humans? i was thinking this morning that pottery might be a nice career change for me.
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place @cwebber@social.coop Not really, it’s been mass-industrialized so at this point outside of Etsy stuff you can largely forget it.
And no one’s going to use very expensive handmade pottery, it’s going to be a display piece.
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@aeva I'm a huge fan of ceramics, in general, as an art form. Side effect of being the neurodivergent son of an archaeologist.
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I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another
But, the agents installed weren't given instructions to *do* anything yet.
Soon they will be. And when they are, the havoc will be massive. Unlike traditional worms, where you're looking for the typically byte-for-byte identical worm embedded in the system, an agent worm can do different, nondeterministic things on every install, and carry out a global action.
I suspect we're months away from seeing the first agent worm, *if* that. There may already be some happening right now in FOSS projects, undetected.
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I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another
But, the agents installed weren't given instructions to *do* anything yet.
Soon they will be. And when they are, the havoc will be massive. Unlike traditional worms, where you're looking for the typically byte-for-byte identical worm embedded in the system, an agent worm can do different, nondeterministic things on every install, and carry out a global action.
I suspect we're months away from seeing the first agent worm, *if* that. There may already be some happening right now in FOSS projects, undetected.
@cwebber
As foretold by SF author John Brunner in _The Shockwave Rider_ (1975). -
@aeva I'm a huge fan of ceramics, in general, as an art form. Side effect of being the neurodivergent son of an archaeologist.
If you start making pieces, please give me a chirp!@aaron I'm probably going to pick up some supplies and experiment. I doubt I'll be selling anything anytime soon, but I'll post progress photos. I haven't worked with ceramics since '09 but I was alright at it back then.
