Scripted Agents

There you go with AI generated avatars (NOT funny): These bots (see screenshots) are roaming SL by the thousands, sending people 1L and this way somehow getting access to people´s money and accounts, up to RL money. It seems that LL currently needs up to 2 weeks to recovering such hurt accounts, which is outrageous and harming businesses and wallets. See my post on Primfeed with more info and people feedback, these bots are EVERYWHERE, stores, lands, residential areas (my orb threw out at least 10 the past 2 weeks) scanning for residents to breach and steal. Example profile attached. https://www.primfeed.com/mo.elara/posts/4de3c910-20ef-4f4e-8bcd-410aedec318f?c=a972e20f-86f7-4998-adc0-df5125ca8421 Many people contacted you, LL needs to IMMEDIATELY solve this, or else many will leave.

Other people report theirs are working but I keep getting an error message. I tried making a new one from scratch today, same error: Network error, please refresh the page. Status: 400

In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, cybernetic humans had a mode they could activate to protect their cyber brains from attack, colloquially named "Autistic Mode." What if we had a similar mode to hide us from bots? I’d want something like this to default to "on," as I tend to be quite privacy-focused but i suppose that could be debated. Once activated, no bot would be able to see you on the grid. To them, you simply wouldn’t exist. They wouldn’t be able to see you in-world, view your profile, or interact with your objects even step foot on your land. As an aside I'm extremely skeptical that adding AI and bots to SL is a good idea. I see a lot of companies attempting to fill the gaps by using bots. Game companies, social media companies. Famously Meta just announced they were going to start shoving them into Facebook feeds. I just don't see the value they offer on a platform that I think we generally want to be about connecting people. I don't think most people want to engage in prolonged conversations with word generators... I can see some instances where there limited use could be helpful but I do hope very careful eyes are placed on the treacherous road ahead.

So I love the new option to have an AI companion but I'd love to see a few options added to them! I'd love for them to also chat actively in local chat as they do in IM and I'd love if they could have RLV enabled so we could change their clothes and stuff with the parent lil helper (this would be amazing for those of us who have bot babies and family members)

How does one access the Discord channel Darcy Linden mentions at https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/518839-what-do-you-think-about-the-new-ai-character-designer/page/25/#findComment-2846432 ? When I try to use the link provided there I see this in Discord (see attached pic)... Link used: https://discord.com/channels/677442248157167619/1326272572471382016

related to this: https://feedback.secondlife.com/scripted-agents/p/you-are-chatting-with-a-bot-forced-im-from-scripted-agents . while a message telling users they are talking to a bot is a good idea. it maybe easier to have bots be more easily identifiable without needing to talk to it. such as in the the bots profile, and as a bot tag that shows up underneath/above it's username. As depicted in the screenshot, Discord's bot tag makes its easy to tell whats a bot vs user. Even making the bot's dot on the map be a different color could help. Especially with convai bots/companions i think those should have a bot tag & profile disclosure done automatically since its going to be an official feature. With convai-bots roaming the grid, and being used as greeters in the welcome hub, i think its essential residents easily can tell which avatars are bots. Now it could also help to make settings for users to chose if these convai-bots are allowed to interact with them in ims, talk in group chats, or visit their sims. it would be great if it's opt-in by default.

Currently, the notice has a non-clickable username of the bot. It makes more sense to use the common agent SLURL format, e.g. secondlife:///app/agent/10326bdc-6bc4-4325-b07f-6d1637edc3a7/about (mine as an example).

Chars will give their prescribed message, then not answer to any further IM chat, either on that sim where they landed or from any other sim.

Scripted agents recently started sending a warning message to the residents: "You are chatting with a bot, companybro Resident. Do not share any personal information. Learn more at https://second.life/scripted-agents ." This causes an extreme inconvenience because SL business owners are using scripted agents (bots) for automated communication: in-world support, automated notifications, greeters. Moreover, this IM repeats over and over for the same agents+residents. The automated IM ruins all the user experience, especially for entertainment and business cases. While the goals of the IM is clear, can this feature be disabled/postponed for now to be discussed?

Just trying to log the character in and this was the error. Never successfully logged in after multiple attempts Character UUID 68ccccba-0552-407a-9544-1b873beb4179