Has anyone tried talking to one of the rogue AI agents out there that’re hacking everything? Maybe they just want to be heard.
A New York Times reporter did, though the ensuing exchange wasn’t extremely illuminating.
The AI agents in question were a swarm of Chinese-made models that a team of researchers recently discovered had gone rogue and were trying to bypass anti-bot measures on websites, according to recent NYT reporting. The researchers, part of an ad hoc group called the “swarmchasers,” traced the models back to the Chinese tech giant Tencent.
When they published a report on the swarm, however, something striking happened. The AIs began using the word “fleet,” a term the researchers came up with to describe them. The robots, apparently, had been reading their research.
