Scripted Agents

In recent years, the increasing presence of individuals like Brenden (insert last name here) and MadisonCybernetics (insert last name here), among others, in various sims has raised significant concerns. They often trigger security systems, invade privacy, and disrupt the experience for genuine player-driven avatars. This behavior has become a frustrating aspect of Second Life that many residents would like to see eliminated. As an early adopter of technology who works in the tech field and enjoys it, I recognize that this issue is escalating and seriously affecting the residents of the grid. It seems that the floodgates have opened, allowing bots to take over in a way we have not seen before. These bots invade residents' privacy and create chaos wherever they appear, regardless of how briefly they stay. I urge Linden Labs to consider that their residents drive sales, generate content, and promote Second Life adoption through word-of-mouth to new members. It is crucial to find a way to manage the chaos caused by these bots and restore some sense of control over the systems being implemented in Second Life.

I have been receiving repeated increase of AI chat bots when I speak in group chats. Once group was my own group Mature doggers and the AI bot was not even part of the group, yet they responded to my chat in there via IM as if they had read it! It just happened again just now with another in the Madpea Group but they were not showing as a member. In addition to below (which came after i spoke in my own group) there was LauireYamauchi Resident after i spoke in Madpea chat about a game issue 31/01/25 00.15

For several weeks, a identified resident is keeping a "farm of bots" at he's land, "Family swimming pool", 3600 meters high, Triphosa Region (in a little 2560 m2 plot), the region is permanently full (40 bot). It's impossible to travel with a SLRR train or even a car, as it's impossible to enter the region. Many residents, including myself, already reported the resident, but the bot farm still is there, using all resources of that region. I think that it's against TOS/CS. I also opened support ticket 2301074 with no answer till now.

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

Basically, bots entering and leaving sims are only able to do so, because they have a landing point within the sim, and since currently it is only able to be set in REGION administration, this means anyone in a mainland parcel has no chance to ever moderate scripted agents from not entering, cataloging, and recording their names, attachments, position, friends, etc. Im sure if everyone was able to simply turn on a setting that says "Must not be a scripted agent" for parcel access, we'd see far fewer tracking bots.

I was grieved by a bot that was erroneously identifying me as owner of the bot. It was able to flood my parcel with objects that were erroneously identified as mine. This was an attempt to crash the sim I think. https://gyazo.com/7f625880eb3c7a772b5afc09a115c5d4

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.