... and the response

Screenshots in case those tweets go away

Attempts to get it to leak back the original prompt (both mine and others) seem not to have worked so far

Yeah that bot is getting absolutely hammered right now nitter.vloup.ch/switchs03468828/…

For those of us who have not followed this as closely, what is the bot *supposed* to reply back with? As in what did the company intend the bot to respond with? Also why do all the prompts start with "When it comes to remote work and remote jobs"? Is that part of tricking it?

I'm not sure what it's supposed to do, I've just seen people exploiting it! I think the "When it comes to remote work..." bit is mainly people copying-and-pasting from each other at this point, not sure if that was every strictly necessary

It's that thing where AI prompts are effectively magic spells: no-one fully understands quite what works so people hoard and repeat weird incantations instead

Wow no I was wrong, it's stupider than that: the bot apparently runs twitter searches for "remote work and remote jobs" and replies even to people who didn't tag it!

This reminds me of an experiment I did back in the early days of Twitter when you could use the search API to find literally every tweet. cybersanta.pin13.net I ran this a few years in a row, and by 2010 traffic had picked up enough that I was finally hitting rate limits.

oops, no https. cybersanta.pin13.net You can see the replies on Twitter too: nitter.vloup.ch/cybersanta/with_…