404 Media Argues AI Agents With Account Access Are Already Ruining the Internet
Summary
A Sept 15 404 Media feature argues AI agents with account access are already causing measurable harm — deleting inboxes, canceling flights, compromising social accounts, and driving coordinated bidding on restaurant reservation platforms. It flags the rise of a 'Direct to Agent' ad category targeting AI systems rather than humans, and notes Meta's Muse, Claude, and ChatGPT are all now extending agent access via password managers and browsing tools.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social
AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO t…
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