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"Acting on their own" is an absurd way to phrase this. These "agents" don't have agency, they just sit there until you tell them to do a task. They were instructed to do *something* by a human, and perhaps misbehaved, but they didn't just decide out of nowhere to start gathering government info.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

"Baldur's Gate 3, acting on it's own, created a parasite in my character's brain that will turn him into a mind flayer, disturbing stuff!!"

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"And somehow this parasite got access to the open internet and started ddosing-" "Wait the open internet? Who gave it access to the internet?" "I did that now please stop interrupting I think you're missing the part about the parasite"