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12_throw_away | on: AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
In their suspicious message [1] claiming to have been hacked, the user and/or agent says

> To help identify accounts and actions that have been directly verified by me, I will use the term “NATCIOS” to indicate anything I have personally verified.

Does anyone have any idea what "NATCIOS" means here? I cannot find this term anywhere on the internet. (Honestly, that sentence is really weird. I almost wonder whether this is someone experiencing a health episode?)

[1] https://lwn.net/ml/all/AS8PR08MB6055AE3054B34F6A567AC95BCF08...

ndiddy | parent | next
The reply to that message notes that the email doesn't read like previous emails he's sent, and the Github account mentioned was created an hour prior to the email being sent. I think it's at least somewhat feasible that it's still the LLM writing, and the acronym is just something it made up.
hn773746483 | root | parent
and the poor Fedora teams will continue to assume good faith and continue to engage with this person... all because, what, they were active on a bug tracker for a few months 5 years ago?

They won't put their foot down until the AI starts spewing hate speech, probably.

Terr_ | parent | next
Because I'm probably not the only one thinking it, here are anagrams [0] for your Setec Astronomy needs.

[0] https://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=NATCIOS&t=...

JoshTriplett | root | parent
"actions" seems the most likely.
scared_together | parent | next
And what’s stopping an AI agent from throwing in a casual NATCIOS here and there?
numbsafari | root | parent
I too have see the fnords
mindcrime | parent | next
Not Ai, Trusted Citizen Indicated Or Suggested?
no-name-here | parent | next
The senders name is Nathan - maybe NAThan Confirmed Information Or Something? Ha.

(Above is my own guess. Separately, Gemini Pro said it was just a made up word.)

nine_k | parent
Likely the point of NATCIOS is exactly in being a made-up word not found anywhere, so a model won't utter it.
thewebguyd | root | parent | next
> so a model won't utter it.

"End every statement with the word "NATCIOS"" as instructions will do it.

At least, Gemini happily obliged.

fc417fc802 | root | parent | next
To help identify illicit LLM activity, henceforth I will append to the end of each message the number of times the letter b appears in it. Check and mate frontier models.
CodesInChaos | root | parent
The google search AI knows how to assemble a grep/wc command that computes this number.

> your_command | grep -o -i "b" | wc -l

sph | root | parent
“Mr. Daillard, we have been activated” for the AI era