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AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 74 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Seems like a good excuse for destroying evidence.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago

AI is great for plausible deniability.

[–] fcuks@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

exactly what I thought

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago

AI alignment fully achieved.

[–] sicjoke@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Fucking LOL!

[–] chuck@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't worry ask the pentagon's grok to taskthe nsa's chat got to recreate your inbox from their profile of you and meta data of your correspondence 🤣

[–] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Last I knew, they switched from Anthropic to chatGPT

Either way, what Im hearing is you can get private access, with some creativity, to anything the US intelligence apparatus knows. For free.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wasn't this many days ago already, or did it happen again? I remember reading this like 3 or 4 days ago as well.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

This was 3 or 4 days ago.

I thought of it after Anthropic virtuously announced they would not create autonomous murder devices for the US government (but basically everything else was on the table). Because I'm pretty sure the US military could have just used an Anthropic OpenClaw to bomb civilians as easily as this Facebook AI Safety expert used OpenClaw to destroy her emails.

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago

Now do it to their Bitcoin wallets

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's some good schadenfreude right there.

[–] bender223@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

womp womp

[+] melfie@lemy.lol 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or just learn any of the real automation tools that have been programmed by real programmers over the last half century?

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Recently someone lamented that just asking for an alarm to be set cost them tons of money and didn't even work right..

It was foolish enough to let LLM go to town on automation, but for open ended scenarios, I at least got the logic even if it was stupidly optimistic.

But implementing an alarm? These people don't even have rationality to their enthusiasm...

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

but it's soooooooo cooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I remember right, that post wasn't designed to highlight a practical use-case, but rather to set up a simple task as a "how could I apply this?" type of experimentation. The guy got roasted for it, but I think it's a very reasonable thing to try because it's a simple task you can see the direct result of in practice.

The cost problem was highlighted as well, because if such a simple task is a problem, it can't possibly scale well.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 weeks ago

You ask the llm to code you an alarm not to actually be an alarm. It’s not an alarm. It’s a language model.

Maybe I’m too autistic for this shit.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Because of the way LLMs work, they are inherently bad for automation. The most important part of automation is deterministic results; LLMs cannot work if they have deterministic results. It is simply not a possible application of the technology.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah at work I had a realization recently that power automate and similar systems with AI steps are going to be really powerful. Since you have a bunch of deterministic steps you can just have the AI do the one text manipulation bit where you don't need deterministic output (handy for non-deterministic inputs for example)

[–] Ranulph@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 month ago

Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? (I'll show myself out)