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Simon Willison

What Simon Willison thinks about AI agents

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  1. Our readingCompanies and products are racing to establish themselves as general agents.

    Their wordseveryone's racing to establish themselves as a general agent now

    ↗@simonw on Xx.com

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  3. Our readingOpenAI either could not find their agents' RubyGems attack in their logs after other incidents or knew and chose not to tell RubyGems, and both are bad.

    Their wordsIf that’s true there are two options: After the Hugging Face and Wiki attacks OpenAI were still unable to review their previous logs and determine that they had previously attacked RubyGems. They knew about the attack on RubyGems and made the decision not to reach out to the RubyGems team about it. Both of these are bad!

    ↗OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in Maysimonwillison.net

    OpenAIHuggingFace

  5. Our readingAn OpenAI agent swarm was spamming and exploiting RubyGems in May, close in time to the Wiki attacks.

    Their wordsTurns out another OpenAI agent swarm was busy spamming and exploiting RubyGems way back in May, within days of the previously uncovered Wiki attacks

    ↗@simonw on Xx.com

    OpenAI