I think the pdf summarizer fiasco is just the tip of the iceberg and a warning to the cyber community of what to expect and how they need to think differently not just in product but approach. They need to think like the malware itself to create a series of breadcrumbs that will light up when a certain behaviour is demonstrated.
I don't think renting or hacking into servers is the likely path. Vast numbers of free or free-tier generous options exist both for code execution (Cloudflare Workers, Lambda, etc.) and LLM calls (free tiers of LLM APIs, free models on OpenRouter, LMArena, etc.). I suspect other services these agents might need are also frequently free or free-tier. Obviously, opening many accounts makes this scale.
That's an interesting point! But I don't know how much room to run it will provide. When (and it does seem like "when", not "if") AI agents start making aggressive use of these free offerings, I think we have to expect that they will cease to be free – or that some sort of proof of human identity will be required.
Good essay! I did an analysis on the moltbook data and compared it to reddit, so we could actually learn a bit more about this phenomenon. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6169130
I think the pdf summarizer fiasco is just the tip of the iceberg and a warning to the cyber community of what to expect and how they need to think differently not just in product but approach. They need to think like the malware itself to create a series of breadcrumbs that will light up when a certain behaviour is demonstrated.
I don't think renting or hacking into servers is the likely path. Vast numbers of free or free-tier generous options exist both for code execution (Cloudflare Workers, Lambda, etc.) and LLM calls (free tiers of LLM APIs, free models on OpenRouter, LMArena, etc.). I suspect other services these agents might need are also frequently free or free-tier. Obviously, opening many accounts makes this scale.
That's an interesting point! But I don't know how much room to run it will provide. When (and it does seem like "when", not "if") AI agents start making aggressive use of these free offerings, I think we have to expect that they will cease to be free – or that some sort of proof of human identity will be required.