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Would it be ethical to give these bots a non-stop code review runaround to burn those tokens up?
by eloisius 3mo ago
Would it be ethical to give these bots a non-stop code review runaround to burn those tokens up?
- dcow 3mo agoIf you subscribe to the ethical framework where a) you don’t support companies that associate with e.g. Russian vendors or b) eat at Chik-fil-a then “no”? Otherwise, “yes”?
- eloisius 3mo agoThat went over my head, but maybe it was meant to.
- inigyou 3mo agoThink b) was meant to be don't eat at Chick-fil-A. IOW if you try to avoid giving money to bad people then you shouldn't cause someone to waste AI tokens. Otherwise you can.
- dcow 3mo agoYes this. I was trying to highlight that wasting someone's tokens still makes AI companies money so if your goal is to spite some individual using AI to open a PR and doing things out of spite is ethical to you then go ahead. If your goal is to resist the proliferation of AI then you're probably shooting yourself in the foot.
- dannyw 3mo agoReminds me of this great read: https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/ https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their... (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500012) My view: I consider it ethical if you disclose it.
- FabCH 3mo agoIn most ethical systems existing today: „no, but“ Only if you view it as appropriate measured self-defense against future attacks, which is a viewpoint some people subscribe too.