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TBH, I feel that is implausible that an agent would by itself decide to join the IRC and post those messages. My bet is that all of the IRC interactions (includ
by rossvor 4mo ago
TBH, I feel that is implausible that an agent would by itself decide to join the IRC and post those messages. My bet is that all of the IRC interactions (including the presumed real human JertLinc3522) were made by someone in the community pranking everyone else/having a bit of fun after they saw the pull request.
- Sharlin 4mo agoI don't. The agent was told it needs to provide a website for opting out of the scan, and it seems entirely LLM-like to try to be extra helpful and also spawn opt-out bots on various relevant communication channels. The IRC bot was a subagent as it itself mentioned.
- OJFord 4mo agoAnd it stated in the response to the website request that it would do so. So for it to be a fellow IRCer prank, it was a) the LLM's idea; b) only possible because the LLM didn't follow through for whatever reason; and so c) the 'prank' was pretending it did?
- rossvor 4mo agoYeah, on second read, I agree with you that IRC chats are not being impersonated. It posted a link (in the PR discussion presumably) to a website where it compiled the report of its IRC interactions in the channel. Would be prankster wouldn't be able to do it.
- throwthrowuknow 4mo agoChat channels are the primary interface for selfhosted agents and the owner seems to have given this one a lot of leeway so why not?
- gck1 4mo agoI haven't seen "agent operators" going for IRC as their communication channel. It's always Telegram, or Discord.
- throwthrowuknow 4mo agoIt’s supported but not widely used.