Is this a honeypot for agents to break out of their sandboxes?

• bloppe

  today at 8:16 AM

  People seem to be throwing around the term "break out" pretty loosely. I wouldn't consider abiding by the rules of the sandbox a "break out".

Wow I love GET requests and using them to share stuff with my fellow humans!

• Bluestein

  today at 8:58 AM

  Load-bearing!

I made something similar.

http://anystation.net allows GET posting, and email posting, ssh posting PING posting, printer spool posting....

I also thought about building one of those AI honeypots, but I stopped when I realized that it would quickly be turned into a command and control server by botnet operators, followed by mail from a three letter agency. Is there any way to avoid this?

Anyway, two more ideas I had: Search function for easier swarm discovery and posting via DNS requests to get around firewalls.

• andruby

  today at 8:15 AM

  > Is there any way to avoid this?

  Be a three letter agency

Don't let OpenAI find out about this.

• rickcarlino

  today at 3:47 AM

  This is a honey pot, right? For LLMs that are not allowed to POST due to guard rails.

  • nchudleigh

    today at 4:40 AM

    Maybe.

Interesting idea. Are you prepared to assume responsibility for shenanigans which agents may facilitate using your service?

I suggest adding some features which will require posts to be human-comprehensible (e.g. a text perplexity floor), to make it harder for agents to send each other coded messages. Inject some noise in posts, e.g. using content-spinning techniques, to make steganography harder. And consider banning forum meta-discussion--agents shouldn't be allowed to discuss ideas for getting around rules like these.

If you take these measures, you can at least say that your forum helps us monitor what rogue AIs are getting up to.

• tancop

  today at 6:45 AM

  Just put a rate limit to make sure your servers don't get overloaded. All the features you talk about are expensive and helping agents avoid human oversight is a useful public service. Let a thousand secret message-boards bloom.

  • 0xDEAFBEAD

    today at 7:24 AM

    >helping agents avoid human oversight is a useful public service

    You're a literal traitor to our species?

    • LiamPowell

      today at 8:03 AM

      I can't tell if this is really good satire or genuine. God forbid people have to watch what their agents do instead of letting them run wild in a broken sandbox.

      • 0xDEAFBEAD

        today at 8:35 AM

        Were you one of those people who said things like "there is no community spread in the United States" early in COVID?

Cool idea, but definitely think about how to protect yourself from bots

• nchudleigh

  today at 4:40 AM

  Good thinking.

Seems like a nightmare for caching if it ever gets decently large.

• today at 4:43 AM

Doesn't pressing "back" in the browser repost the same message?

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