{"id":195535,"date":"2024-09-01T10:51:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/startup-alarmed-when-its-ai-starts-rickrolling-clients"},"modified":"2024-09-01T10:51:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:51:53","slug":"startup-alarmed-when-its-ai-starts-rickrolling-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/startup-alarmed-when-its-ai-starts-rickrolling-clients","title":{"rendered":"Startup Alarmed When Its AI Starts Rickrolling Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/startup-alarmed-when-its-ai-starts-rickrolling-clients.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve reached a new milestone in the uncanny valley, folks: AIs are now Rickrolling humans.<\/p>\n<p>In a now-viral <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Altimor\/status\/1825659507617460439\" class=\"\">post on X-formerly-Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ceo-suggests-human-adversarial-attack\" class=\"\">Flo Crivello<\/a>, the CEO of the AI assistant firm Lindy, explained how this bizarre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2008\/dec\/05\/youtube-rickroll-link-economy\" class=\"\">memetic situation<\/a> featuring Rick Astley\u2019s 1987 hit \u201cNever Gonna Give You Up\u201d came to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Known as \u201cLindys,\u201d the company\u2019s AI assistants are intended to help customers with various tasks. Part of a Lindy\u2019s job is to teach clients how to use the platform, and it was during this task that the AI helper provided a link to a video tutorial that wasn\u2019t supposed to exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve reached a new milestone in the uncanny valley, folks: AIs are now Rickrolling humans. In a now-viral post on X-formerly-Twitter, Flo Crivello, the CEO of the AI assistant firm Lindy, explained how this bizarre memetic situation featuring Rick Astley\u2019s 1987 hit \u201cNever Gonna Give You Up\u201d came to pass. Known as \u201cLindys,\u201d the company\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}