Sloperator attempts to send their AI agents to scan the decentralised volunteer run network DN24 at a rate of 100Gbps. The DN24 members decide to mess with the agent causing the sloperator a very high AWS bill. Great success.

  • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
    23·
    3 days ago

    DN42, I loved their antics while trying to mess with a Sloperator…I honestly don’t feel bad for the individual that got hammered financially. They should’ve learned how to do something like scanning a network themselves, put in some honest work and reaped the reward of some serious knowledge that can be used in a lot of places. It does suck that the environment was harmed by the continued usage of LLM resources and compute…

  • Gladaed@feddit.org
    415·
    3 days ago

    Beware of criminal liability. Maliciously causing damage is very much on the line to the criminal. Also causes environmental damage etc.

    • veleth@sh.itjust.works
      16·
      2 days ago

      But in this case there’s nothing to be liable for. The AWS bill had nothing to do with DN42’s trolling. It is not clear how much in tokens their trolling cost, but the figure provided in the headline refers to the provisioned AWS resources. Had the scanning been actually performed, it could have been even higher.