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The protection mechanism to give the AI agents "read only" access to the Internet seems to have been just restricting them to HTTP GET requests. Then they foun
by Animats 1mo ago
The protection mechanism to give the AI agents "read only" access to the Internet seems to have been just restricting them to HTTP GET requests.
Then they found a site where GET operations could cause a write to a wiki.
- windsurfer 1mo agoVoting on this site is a GET request to https://news.ycombinator.com/vote https://news.ycombinator.com/vote, so it's not that unusual.
- dbbk 1mo agoYet completely wrong
- hn_throwaway_99 29d agoThe difference between "read only" and "state updating write" is not nearly as clean cut as people like to pretend, even without regarding the technical differences between GET and POST requests. E.g. sites can have visit counters that update when someone visits, and that's a GET.
- dbbk 29d agoYes in the year 1999