I Phish My AI Agent, and You Should Too
I Phish My AI Agent, And You Should Too Posted on 29/07/2026 by It is very common for people to humanize AI agents / personal assistants these days. Agents encourage it, for example OpenClaw asking you to name it, a well known way to create empathy toward animals or inanimate objects. This extends to models of thinking about how they work – you give it a soul(.md), a persona, add it to Slack or other messaging app similar to how you message your friends or coworkers.
- ▪I Phish My AI Agent, And You Should Too Posted on 29/07/2026 by It is very common for people to humanize AI agents / personal assistants these days.
- ▪Agents encourage it, for example OpenClaw asking you to name it, a well known way to create empathy toward animals or inanimate objects.
- ▪This extends to models of thinking about how they work – you give it a soul(.md), a persona, add it to Slack or other messaging app similar to how you message your friends or coworkers.
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| Original publisher | Sveder's Blog |
| Canonical URL | https://sveder.com/blog/i-phish-my-ai-agent-and-you-should-too/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:44:01 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-04T13:55:44.477Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-04T13:55:44.477Z |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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I Phish My AI Agent, And You Should Too Posted on 29/07/2026 by It is very common for people to humanize AI agents / personal assistants these days. Agents encourage it, for example OpenClaw asking you to name it, a well known way to create empathy toward animals or inanimate objects. This extends to models of thinking about how they work – you give it a soul(.md), a persona, add it to Slack or other messaging app similar to how you message your friends or coworkers. Thinking of this, it struck me that humans are vulnerable to multiple scams and hacking attempts from a lot of different channels. Even people aware of specific attacks. Even professionals in the scam prevention/cyber field.
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