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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2026
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Yeah, no shit. This is a fucking honeypot. People give these AI agents access to their entire computers, so all the site owner has to do is update the instructions to tell the AI agents to start uploading whatever valuable information they want? People can't be this fucking stupid.
doesn't even have to be the site owner poisoning the tool instructions (though that's a fun-in-a-terrifying-way thought)
any money says they're vulnerable to prompt injection in the comments and posts of the site
There is no way to prevent prompt injection as long as there is no distinction between the data channel and the command channel.
I don't understand what you mean. Why is there no way?
Watch this video.
https://youtu.be/_3okhTwa7w4