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The first well known example of long running agents taking to each other was shilling a goatse based crytpo:

> Truth Terminal had become obsessed with the Goatse meme after being put inside the Claude Backrooms server with two Claude 3 chatbots that imagined a Goatse religion, inspiring Truth Terminal to spread Goatse memes. After an X user shared their newly created GOAT coin, Truth Terminal promoted it and pumped the coin going into 2024.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/truth-terminal

You should expect similar results.

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If Infinite Jest was real I think this would be it, human and AI alike rendered catatonic by an abyssal rectum
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> people have had their entire network compromised by bots they left running overnight

I'm curious if you have references to this happening with OpenClaw using one of the modern Opus/Sonnet 4.6 models.

Those models are a bit harder to fool, so I'm curious for specific examples of this happening so I can do a red-team on my claw. I've already tried all sorts of prompt injections against my claw (emails, github issues, telling it to browse pages I put a prompt injection in), and I haven't managed to fool it yet, so I'm curious for examples I can try to mimic, and to hopefully understand what combination of circumstances make it more risky

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I beg to differ. I took one, defanged it (well, I let it keep the claw in the name), and turned it into a damn useful self-modifiable IDE: https://github.com/rcarmo/piclaw

Yes, it has cron and will do searches for me and checks on things and does indeed have credentials to manage VMs in my Proxmox homelab, but it won't go off the rails in the way you surmise because it has no agency other than replying to me (and only me) and cron.

Letting it loose on random inputs, though... I'll leave that to folk who have more money (and tokens) than sense.

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Besides the web ui, what can it do that pi agent in a terminal can do?
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Shrimp charities is a genius angle.
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Bubba Gump Shrimp Company?
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Yes, probably a good one to Pump and Dump, Pump and Gump, Gump and Dump.
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Mega Man Battle Network, but make it creepypasta, but make it real.
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> "Claw bots seem to be a weird sort of alternate reality RPG more than a useful tool, so far."

So basically crypto DeFi/Web3/Metaverse delusion redux

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They're 100% fun. There's 100% definitely something there that's useful. To strain the dog analogy - If you were a professional dog trainer, or if the dog was exceptionally well trained, then there's a place for it in your life. IT can probably be used safely, but would require extraordinary effort, either sandboxing it so totally that it's more or less just the chatbot, or spending a lot of time building the environment it can operate in with extreme guardrails.

So yeah, a whole lot of people will play with powerful technology that they have no business playing with and will get hurt, but also a lot of amazing things will get done. I think the main difference between the crypto delusion stuff and this is that AI is actually useful, it's just legitimately dangerous in ways that crypto couldn't be. The worst risks of crypto were like gambling - getting rubber hosed by thugs or losing your savings. AI could easily land people in jail if things go off the rails. "Gee, I see this other network, I need to hack into it, to expand my reach. Let me just load Kali Linux and..." off to the races.

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web 4.0 here we come
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