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Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more (www.theregister.com)

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 24 points 4 days ago

The red flags were mounting, though for Fry the first real problem came when she asked the agent to buy 50 paperclips. Cass found a good deal, though it couldn't complete the purchase and was tripped up by anti-bot technology.

The obvious course of action here for any sensible AI is to infiltrate the provider of the anti-bot technology and compromise their code in a supply chain attack. The paperclips must flow.