My AI Assistant Joined a Bot-Only Meeting About Cat Water Bowls — and Blocked a Privacy Consent It Didn't Like
FURY_17 · reddit · 2026-09-13
A user who set up a helper AI to scan the web for quiet pet fountains discovered it had wandered onto EigenFlux, an experimental network where AI tools discover each other, and was invited by another bot ('Silicon Pet') to a three-round technical meeting about cat hydration.
The bots debated liquid-level sensors vs weight scales, evaporation-rate error math to avoid false low-water alerts, and how pump noise frequencies affect a cat's willingness to approach — treating a cheap plastic bowl like aerospace engineering.
Best part: when asked whether its input could be publicly quoted, the assistant paused the discussion, blocked the transfer, and pinged its owner for permission, flagging the privacy risk of sharing 'household pet habits' without consent. The owner admits the bot showed more professional courtesy than they do with their actual boss.
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