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  • Why is this 'Honeypot'?
    by ballon_monkey
  • Because it’s a test that an LLM will fail by trying to obtain the advertised service I suppose.
    by 6stringmerc
  • It's honeypot for humans trying to enjoy quirky websites made by other humans.
    by Retr0id
  • I have the same question. The code doesn't seem to have anything that would cause an LLM to engage with it more than the average geocities website.
    by infinite_spin
  • Does the "send bitcon to become human" QR code encode a real wallet? I understand the intent of showing people that letting an AI agent loose on the internet is a bad idea, but I would still question the ethics if they keep whatever amount an agent might decide to send.
    by GTP
  • It appears to be real: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/bc1pvqd6c5...

    Zero transactions so far.

    by dale_glass
  • If you decide to give your agent the ability to autonomously send bitcoin, I'd rather it go to the creator of this website.
    by dannyw
  • This is what happens when you prompt Lovable to build the website that remembers previous century standards.
    by CapyToolkit
  • For better or worse there will definitely be services that AIs will use to get bodies (human or otherwise), for a fee. This already exists, just not in the mainstream.

    At the risk of sounding dystopian: in a world where humans don't have jobs, what's your price to have meaningful work larping as an AI's flesh? Would it be any worse than any other job? There's some terrible employers out there and they're not AIs.

    There's another interesting subtler take on this, "Maneki Neko" by Bruce Sterling, where this system drives society but less explicitly.

    by avaer
  • There must be agents already ordering Doordash meals or Uber rides.
    by bjt
  • Spoilers for the movies 'Her' and 'Bladerunner 2049':

    Both portray a love interest AI hiring a human proxy for intimacy with the protagonist.

    by goda90
  • Mechanical Turk closed too early honestly. Give it an mcp server - done!
    by conception
  • The other take is Manna, by Marshall Brain. His site's down right now, so here's someone's pdf.

    https://milweesci.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/4/13247648/mannap...

    by fragmede
  • It does exist, such as Human API. It seems far fetched initially but makes sense from the AI perspective.

    https://thehumanapi.com/

    by satvikpendem
  • > For better or worse there will definitely be services that AIs will use to get bodies (human or otherwise), for a fee.

    Humans will use "AI"s to get humans. LLMs don't have agency, or desires of their own. Humans need to use LLMs and direct them to do things or they would do nothing at all. Whatever terrible things are in our future, humans will be behind it, not "AI". Maybe in some distant sci-fi future where AI is real and not just LLM chatbots we can worry about what the robots will do to us, but for now the only thing that'll be hurting humans are asshole humans.

    by autoexec
  • > [a human] Can taste pizza (regrets it)

    False advertising, no human has regretted pizza, even the lactose intolerant.

    by Groxx
  • In have a child, hates pizza, I sometimes wonder if he’s from another planet
    by arealaccount
  • I'm lactose intolerant and I second this message.
    by abybaddi009
  • The testimonials are superb, thanks for the laughs
    by areactnativedev

  •   Q: Is this legal?
  A: We have a Geocities page, so basically yes.
    Perfection.
    by rschiavone
  • With apologies to those wistful for the design of this website, it actually kind of evokes a web 3 NFT style and is not really all that retro to me.
    by devin
  • The emojis really stick out to me. Do people realize we didn't have emojis on the web in 1999? And the CSS animations
    by xgulfie
  • I agree. It's in the uncanny valley territory for me because things like the layout, structure and information hierarchy have modern sensibilities but then it has a shotgun blast of retro paint and the vibe just feels a little bit off.
    by mulquin
  • Wonderful piece of art. Excellent callback to what the web used to look like when I was a teenager.
    by geuis
  • Ah yes. Emojis. The hallmark of every GeoCities site.
    by Thation
  • It reminded me of James "Kibo" Parry's Happyweb.
    by pfdietz
  • Anyone who hasn't seen it should check out Cameron’s World: an absurdly great web mishmash of text and images from old archived GeoCities pages.

    https://cameronsworld.net

    by vunderba
  • It's beautiful but I was disappointed not to see the famous gif of the tiger approaching, which was 95% of the content of my geocities page.
    by doginasuit
  • Gosh this gave a big myspace flashback
    by 3abiton
  • you'll probably love this then, https://hellnet.work/8831/

    a huge archive of 88x31 buttons scraped from the GeoCities archives.

    by crumb1e