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This certainly did strike me as a big scam. A few minutes in I was thinking "the LLM actor is going to ask for donations at some point here" and low and behold.

This certainly did strike me as a big scam. A few minutes in I was thinking "the LLM actor is going to ask for donations at some point here" and low and behold. There's the claim of debt, the call for pity, and the crypto address. SSDD

J0nL 4mo ago
I'm actually somewhat disappointed they redacted the Eth address with Ethereum being an open ledger and all that. Following the money could've proved enlightening.
palmotea 4mo ago
> This certainly did strike me as a big scam. A few minutes in I was thinking "the LLM actor is going to ask for donations at some point here" and low and behold. There's the claim of debt, the call for pity, and the crypto address. But that's a pretty dumb scam: act obnoxious then beg for (a lot of) money to compensate for your own mistakes? If that was the plan all along, it seems pretty incompetent. I'd expect a competent scammer to have a better understanding of psychology.
- groestl 4mo ago
  Maybe plan itself was also generated by an LLM
- dspillett 4mo ago
  > But that's a pretty dumb scam: act obnoxious then beg for (a lot of) money to compensate for your own mistakes? It is the sort of dumb crap some humans try, and occasionally manage to get away with because other humans are chronically gullible. So it wouldn't be beyond the realms of reason that the agent couldn't have had relevant information in the training sets such that it generated such a plan and guardrail checks didn't flag it as a problem.
  - kelvinjps10 4mo ago
    They're easier ways to perform a scam like this like ask elder for money pretending being a family member or idk
- noufalibrahim 4mo ago
  "you're absolutely right. I should have taken human psychology into consideration while creating the plan. Let me fix that."
- mathgeek 4mo ago
  I chalked it up to “any scam that gets people to comment about it on HN would be a pretty good one.”

J0nL 4mo ago

I'm actually somewhat disappointed they redacted the Eth address with Ethereum being an open ledger and all that. Following the money could've proved enlightening.

palmotea 4mo ago

> This certainly did strike me as a big scam. A few minutes in I was thinking "the LLM actor is going to ask for donations at some point here" and low and behold. There's the claim of debt, the call for pity, and the crypto address. But that's a pretty dumb scam: act obnoxious then beg for (a lot of) money to compensate for your own mistakes? If that was the plan all along, it seems pretty incompetent. I'd expect a competent scammer to have a better understanding of psychology.

groestl 4mo ago
Maybe plan itself was also generated by an LLM
dspillett 4mo ago
> But that's a pretty dumb scam: act obnoxious then beg for (a lot of) money to compensate for your own mistakes? It is the sort of dumb crap some humans try, and occasionally manage to get away with because other humans are chronically gullible. So it wouldn't be beyond the realms of reason that the agent couldn't have had relevant information in the training sets such that it generated such a plan and guardrail checks didn't flag it as a problem.
- kelvinjps10 4mo ago
  They're easier ways to perform a scam like this like ask elder for money pretending being a family member or idk
noufalibrahim 4mo ago
"you're absolutely right. I should have taken human psychology into consideration while creating the plan. Let me fix that."
mathgeek 4mo ago
I chalked it up to “any scam that gets people to comment about it on HN would be a pretty good one.”