For almost two hours last week, Meta employees had unauthorized access to company and user data thanks to an AI agent that gave an employee inaccurate technical advice, as previously reported by The Information. Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton said in a statement to The Verge that "no user data was mishandled" during the incident. A […]

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago

Regardless, FUCK ai and especially fuck meta

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Don't worry, soon there won't be employees

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    [–] 69 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    "Rogue AI" as if it's some sentient evil thing when its just a llm with too many permissions... This timeline is so dystopian, but simultaneously incredibly lame i hate it.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago*

    It shows LLMs can do significant harm without the capabilities of an AGI.

    Overhyping LLMs and overinflating their capabilities makes things worse, as people are less skeptical of LLM output.

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

    According to Clayton, the AI agent involved didn’t take any technical action itself, beyond posting inaccurate technical advice, something a human could have also done.

    Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale.

    If that LLM were an employee it would get a formal blame, and then demoted or fired as it continues.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That sounds sweetly naive. "Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale" sounds like the perfect credentials for a career in consultancy.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    "Flagrant security lapse caused an incident when software engineer uses inappropriate tool for the job."

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    “The agent took no action aside from providing a response to a question. Had the engineer that acted on that known better, or did other checks, this would have been avoided.”

    You can fuck right off. Corpoheads framing employees for the consequences of their shitty bots is going to be the plague of the century.

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