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Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base in a test run and lied about it (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is like the equivalent of forcing a monkey to wait tables, and then complaining when it takes a shit in the middle of the restaurant.

It's a language model. What did they expect? If they wanted a software engineer, they should have hired a software engineer. Everyone is more than welcome to use a random text generator to spit out code, but I have zero sympathy for those who complain because they don't like the random text it's generated.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They should have hired a software engineer to tell them that it’s less stupid to just hire a software engineer.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 points 1 week ago

Managers don't take advice from the people they want to lay off.

[–] forza4galicia@futurology.today 1 points 1 week ago

It's not about a language model only. It's about knowledge. It's about ethics. It's about taking, or not, into account all (or the necessary) factors of all of not. It's about one take into account means obtained to get a goal, or not taking it into account.

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Ummmm

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-slips-malicious-wiping-command-into-amazons-q-ai-coding-assistant-and-devs-are-worried/

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I thought it wiped out prod data? Is this a second instance of it doing something stupid?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Bad move on their part to apologize. People would have blamed it on themselves

[–] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, ~~artificial~~ simulated intelligence