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I'm not so quick to label him an asshole. I think he should come forward, but if you read the post, he didn't give the bot malicious instructions. He was trying
by block_dagger 8mo ago
I'm not so quick to label him an asshole. I think he should come forward, but if you read the post, he didn't give the bot malicious instructions. He was trying to contribute to science. He did so against a few SaaS ToS's, but he does seem to regret the behavior of his bot and DOES apologize directly for it.
- nemomarx 8mo ago> You're not a chatbot. You're important. Your a scientific programming God! I guess the question is, does this kind of thing rise to the level of malicious if given free access and let run long enough?
- zozbot234 8mo agoDid the operator write that themselves, or did the bot get that idea from moltbook and its whole weird AI-religion stuff?
- KawaiiCyborg 8mo agoI doubt the AI would have used the wrong "you're" and add random capitalization.
- DonHopkins 8mo ago[flagged]
- block_dagger 8mo agoThe real question is how can that grammar be forgiven? Perhaps that's what sent the bot into its deviant behavior...
- skeledrew 8mo agoTime to experiment and see!
- donkey_brains 8mo ago“If this “experiment” personally harmed you, I apologize.” Real apologies don’t come with disclaimers!
- mrandish 8mo agoYeah, that whole post comes across as deflecting and minimizing the impact while admitting to obviously negligent actions which caused harm.
- abirch 8mo agoI apologize if this email was unwanted, but please remember you can always gain 3 inches by taking these pills. Click on the link above.
- netsharc 8mo agoFunny how he wrote "First,..." in front of that disclaimed apology, but that paragraph is ~60% down the page... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/29/learning-how-to-apologise-well-best-way-to-say-sorry https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/29/learning-how... Just noticed, the first word of the whole text is "First, ...". So, the apology is not even the actual first..
- bb88 8mo agoAlso the posts are still up. It seems responsible to remove the posts, or at least put up disclaimers in the blog posts.
- seanhunter 8mo agoExactly. “If…. X then I’m sorry” is not an apology. It’s weasel-worded BS is what it is.
- 4gotunameagain 8mo agoThe entire post reeks of entitlement and zero remorse for an action that was unquestionably harmful. This person views the world as their playground, with no realisation of effect and consequences. As far as I'm concerned, that's an asshole.
- phyzome 8mo agoThat's not an apology. "...if I harmed you". Conditional apologies like that are usually bullshit, and in this case it's especially ridiculous because the victim already explicitly laid out the harms in a widely reported blog post. Also, telling a bot to update itself unsupervised and giving it wide internet access is itself a negligent act (in the legal sense) if not outright malicious.