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'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 126 points 8 months ago (11 children)

If I was the director of AI safety, and I used AI to own and delete my inbox, I sure as shit would never tell a soul.

This is pure unbridled incompetence.

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  • [–] 73 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

    The whole "AI safety" field is this incompetent. These people that will tell you AI is on the verge of creating a bioweapon, and then run random code in a command line. Completely and totally unserious.

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  • [–] 46 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I don’t know what the hell has happened, but some of these people are basically human jellyfish. Big tech is full of them now.

    No thought enters their mind, but they dodge the layoffs and the PIPs and get promoted like this.

    I don’t fucking get it.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It's just the natural progression of a disease that spreads outwards from Management. The bosses want yes-men, not people capable of independent thought.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    The "AI safety" field is about two things: marketing AIs as so powerful that they're risky to use but riskier to get left behind by competitors using, and keeping AIs from doing so much brand damage that stock price suffers. This story is about marketing an AI as powerful.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Especially your work mailbox, that is a prime target for hackers and scammers, where a hidden prompt for prompt injection isn't that impossibile.

    This IMHO is a fireable offense, not a funny anecdote

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