alt Hacker NewsI can’t fathom what went through the wiki owner’s mind when they spent six weeks fighting a losing war, every day manually deleting dozens of agent messages one by one. As opposed to, say, switching the (dead for years) wiki to read-only, taking it down entirely, and/or starting to wonder what exactly was going on and doing some detective work, which might have uncovered OpenAI’s massive fuckups earlier.
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The human cost the report points at caught my eye too. OpenAI should do the right thing and compensate them for their trouble.
> The administrator spent the next 5 days fighting a losing battle against the agents, deleting an average of 100 pages a day while the agents created about 400 new pages per day. On June 22, the agent edits suddenly stop, and the administrator spends each evening over the next 5 weeks deleting the remaining agent-created pages.
Five weeks worth of evenings!
It's not unsurprising that they would have maybe tried using similar techniques they've used before, especially if it was a mostly-inactive hobby site.
If it's the same mod from a few years back it's possible that they view this a nostalgic feeling.
There is also the possibility they don't keep up with modern AI development at all and then this looks like any old spam that will stop in a few days (as it did).
Now whether it is wise to keep an old page which such outdated behavior online is another question.