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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Feb/0025.html

found this while stalking @self@awful.systems's mastodon, the people working on ActivityPub want to shoehorn Ai into it somehow.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

including possible effects on the protocols from issues like such as AI fuzzing attempts, to social engineering by AI's,

"You know those massive problems we already had going back decades? Well what if the same problems happened in the future but with the letters 'A' and 'I' prepended? Scary!"

through to how we deal with and approach and facilitate Avatars and Agents.

Gosh darn it don't tell me LLM hype is going to ruin the existing definition of "agent" already well established in web standards.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago

Gosh darn it don't tell me LLM hype is going to ruin the existing definition of "agent" already well established in web standards.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. If you skim places like HN or more chillingly the mainstream tech news outlets, I've not seen the term Agent used to mean anything but AI agents in many months. The usage has shifted to AI being the implied default, and otherwise having to be specified.