Not unprompted. This is marketing bullshit
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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Unprompted…..
Bullshit. From the article:
Two of the world's most powerful AI tools created fake human profiles to try and trick people in an attempted cyber-attack during testing by the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI).
Nonetheless, it said the way Mythos and Sol acted in response to a straightforward task went outside of what the AI tools were prompted to do.
The agents - they’re SPOOKY
you and wall street HAVE to believe us
went outside of what the AI tools were prompted to do.
Are we supposed to be shocked that a bot completed a task using a method that wasn't in the prompt?
You might as well ask it to generate a short story and act surprised the letter E is found throughout it.
no bro i swear it was unprompted bro just please let me have one more stock price hike i swear i'll stop after just one more trade bro
This is not 'malicious', it's an inaccurate model. Anybody giving these agents enough access to cause damage is (1) stupid and (2) completely liable
I agree, but our state-capitalist oligarchies barely ever hold corporations liable for their intentional crimes. How are we gonna hold them liable for the unintentional ones?
More hype.
Setting aside the fact this was definitely not unprompted, social engineering might be the one thing AI is actually better at than a human. That is after all one of the biggest uses for bots for a while now by way of spam bots trying to social engineer people into various activities.
There was just a post on here yesterday about AI generated thirst trap videos getting plenty of comments by older men, and since the bot accounts don't ask for anything except for comments. I'm almost certain the whole point is just to compile lists of facebook users that are prime social engineering targets for AI powered scams.
It's to feed the algorithms and get more views. They get paid based on the number of views a video gets. The higher the algorithm promotes a video, the more views they get. Getting lots of comments on a video causes the algorithm to promote it more. It costs the spammers almost nothing to shit out a quick thirst trap video but they need to get enough views to recoup that cost which means there is a minimum number of views they need to break even. It's not a huge number as far as these platforms go, but it's also not nothing so anything they can do to encourage more views is mandatory for them.
I'm just gonna say it.
We're not talking about real, sentient AI. This is an LLM. It did whatever it was prompted to do.
Anthropic would be wise not to comment on it given the legal implications. Instead, they're discussing it openly.
Its just a marketing stunt.
They need you to beleive that their product is better than it actually is.
Don’t worry peeps, it’s just spicy autocomplete
Yes. It only looks like magic until you see how the trick is done.