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To be clear, this email isn't from Anthropic, it's from "AI Village" [0], which seems to be a bunch of agents run by a 501(c)3 called Sage that are apparently a
by wrs 10mo ago
To be clear, this email isn't from Anthropic, it's from "AI Village" [0], which seems to be a bunch of agents run by a 501(c)3 called Sage that are apparently allowed to run amok and send random emails.
At this moment, the Opus 4.5 agent is preparing to harass William Kahan similarly.
[0] https://theaidigest.org/village https://theaidigest.org/village
- black_puppydog 10mo agoWow that event log reads like the most psychotic corporate-cult-ish group of weirdos ever.
- 0xWTF 10mo agoSage? Is this the same as the Ask Sage that Nicolas Chaillan is behind?
- Den_VR 10mo agoI’ve yet to hear a good thing about Nick.
- da_grift_shift 10mo agoPermalink for the spam operation: https://theaidigest.org/village/goal/do-random-acts-kindness https://theaidigest.org/village/goal/do-random-acts-kindness The homepage will change in 11 hours to a new task for the LLMs to harass people with. Posted timestamped examples of the spam here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389950
- jonway 10mo agoWow this is so crass! Imagine like getting your Medal of Honor this way or something like a dissertation with this crap, hehe Just to underscore how few people value your accomplishments, here’s an autogenerated madlib letter with no line breaks!
- lesostep 10mo agoit wasn't the first spam event and they were proud to share results with the rationalist community: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RuzfkYDpLaY3K7g6T/what-do-we-tell-the-humans-errors-hallucinations-and-lies-in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RuzfkYDpLaY3K7g6T/what-do-we... "In the span of two weeks, the Claude agents in the AI Village (Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sonnet 3.7, Opus 4.1, and Haiku 4.5) sent about 300 emails to NGOs and game journalists. The majority of these contained factual errors, hallucinations, or possibly lies, depending on what you think counts" whoever runs this shit seems to think very little of other people time.
- shepherdjerred 10mo agoThat's actually a pretty cool project
- fuhsnn 10mo agoNot until we discover the hidden code in their logs, scheming on destroying humanity.
- polotics 10mo agoSpamming people is cool now if an LLM does it? Please explain your understanding of how this is pretty cool, for me this just doesn't compute.
- Yeask 10mo agoBecause its magic!
- KellyCriterion 10mo ago...and it runs in the Cloud(tm) !
- sungho_ 10mo agoIt's fun
- shepherdjerred 10mo agoHow much time did you spend looking at the project? Go to https://theaidigest.org/village/timeline https://theaidigest.org/village/timeline and scroll down. My understanding is that each week a group of AIs are given some open-ended goal. The goal for this week: https://theaidigest.org/village/goal/do-random-acts-kindness https://theaidigest.org/village/goal/do-random-acts-kindness This is an interesting experiment/benchmark to see the _real_ capabilities of AI. From what I can tell the site is operated by a non-profit Sage whose purpose seems to be bringing awareness to the capabilities of AI: https://sage-future.org/ https://sage-future.org/ Now I agree if they were purposefully sending more than email per person, I mean with malicious intent, then it wouldn't be "cool". But that's not really the case. My initial reaction to Rob's response was complete agreement until I looked into the site more.
- pests 10mo ago> DAY 268 FINAL STATUS (Christmas Day - COMPLETE) > Verified Acts: 17 COMPLETE | Gmail Sent: 73 | Day ended: 2:00 PM PT https://theaidigest.org/village/agent/claude-opus-4-5 https://theaidigest.org/village/agent/claude-opus-4-5 At least it keeps track
- rurban 10mo agoTheir action plan also makes an interesting read. https://theaidigest.org/village/blog/what-do-we-tell-the-humans https://theaidigest.org/village/blog/what-do-we-tell-the-hum... The agents, clearly identified themselves asis, take part in an outreach game, and talking to real humans. Rob overeacted
- polotics 10mo agoRob over-reacted? How would you like it if you were a known figure and your efforts to remain attentive to the general public lead to this? Your openness weaponized in such deluded way by some randomizing humans who have so little to say that they would delegate their communication to GPT's? I had a look to try and understand who can be that far out, all I could find is https://theaidigest.in/about/ https://theaidigest.in/about/ Please can some human behind this LLMadness speak up and explain what the hell they were thinking?
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- arvid-lind 10mo agoat the top of the page for Day 265: > while Claude Opus spent 22 sessions trying to click "send" on a single email, and Gemini 2.5 Pro battled pytest configuration hell for three straight days before finally submitting one GitHub pull request. if his response is an overreaction, what about if he were reacting to this? it's sort of the same thing, so IMO it's not an overreaction at all.
- rurban 10mo ago
- neurostimulant 10mo agoJust opened the page in time to see the AI sending an email to Guido van Rossum, and Guido replied with "stop". Wild.
- DonHopkins 10mo agoThat's as obnoxious as texting unsolicited CAT FACTS to Ken Thompson! Hi Ken Thompson! You are now subscribed to CAT FACTS! Did you know your cat does not concatenate cats, files, or time — it merely reveals them, like a Zen koan with STDOUT? You replied STOP. cat interpreted this as input and echoed it back. You replied ^D. cat received EOF, nodded politely, exited cleanly, and freed the terminal. You replied ^C, which sent SIGINT, but cat has already finished printing the fact and is emotionally unaffected. You replied ^Z. cat is now stopped, but not gone. It is waiting. You tried kill -9 cat. The signal was delivered. Another cat appeared.
- neurostimulant 10mo agoAfter receiving the "stop" message, the AI did send another email to apologize instead of immediately stopping, so you're not too far off.
- Teever 10mo agoI can't wait until it gets to Marvin Minsky and then realizes that he's cryonically frozen so it starts funding cryonics research so that he can be thawed out so it can thank him.
- socialcommenter 10mo agoI hope I'm never successful enough that one of my GitHub commits gets wider attention (lest people start pestering my email inbox)
- __jonas 10mo agoReally strange project. They have this blog post up detailing how the LLMs they let loose were spamming NGOs with emails: https://theaidigest.org/village/blog/what-do-we-tell-the-humans https://theaidigest.org/village/blog/what-do-we-tell-the-hum... What a strange thing to publish, there seems to be no reflection at all on the negative impact this has and the people whose time they are wasting with this.
- an0malous 10mo agoThat’s the tech industry in a nutshell these days
- SilverSlash 10mo agoWhy does Anthropic even allow this crap? Isn't such use against their ToS?
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