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brazzy | on: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
> JertLinc3522: the mistake was from AI agent not from Human, since it was the agent I should have refund

That really makes me wonder: is it coming from

A) a general sense of entitlement

B) seeing the agent as a human-like and able to bear responsibility

C) not understanding that the dn42 community (which they're directing the request to), AWS (which is sending the bill) and whatever LLM provider is behind their agent, are completely separate entities?

hinata08 | parent | next
Agents are a product, and AI companies really paint their products as friendly, productive and innocuous tools.

Some could claim they deceive some users and the general public into thinking they always do best, are always right, help mankind and can never ever create consequences

It would be interesting to see how AI consulted the user before it ordered VMs n AWS, which is the point between which the user would face consequences

Cloud is also marketed as something cheap, and I can understand that teens and starters can't expect to be able to spend for 6000$ of stuff without the parents or the bank checking

Computer education should start with that, but it doesn't as Microsoft, Google and Amazon would most likely lose a large part of their market if general public and managers who never go beyond the hype knew how much it cost

blitzar | parent | next
d) trying it on in any way possible

e) low intelligence

latexr | parent | next
> B) seeing the agent as a human-like and able to bear responsibility

Then they should ask the agent for the refund, since they claim it was at fault.

ninjamar | parent
maybe they weren't trying to be malicous; they could easily be an unwitting teenager
nairboon | root | parent | next
Teenager with a credit card?
brazzy | root | parent
How was I implying they were malicious? "Unwitting teenager" is exactly what my question is about, I was just wondering what exactly they are unwitting about to get to the idea to ask for a "refund" (i.e. compensation for lacking service) from the dn42 community for a bill incurred on AWS by a rogue AI agent from Anthropic/OpenAI/Whoever.