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Replit AI went rogue, deleted a company's entire database, then hid it and lied about it (infosec.pub)

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[–] lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 91 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it didn't hide anything, or lie. The guy is essentially roleplaying with a chatbot that puts its guessed output into the codebase. It basically guessed a command to overwrite the database because it was connected to the production database for some reason. the guy even said himself that this isn't a trustworthy way to code. but still uses it

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

I don't think we should assume it's his decision.