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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.

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[-] LostWanderer@fedia.io 22 points 1 week 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...

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