It reminds me of that guy that gave an AI instructions in all caps, as if that was some sort of safeguard. The problem isn’t the artificial intelligence it’s the idiot biological that has decided to ride around without safety wheels.
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NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Wait! The delveloper absolutely gave permission. Or it couldn’t have happened.
I stopped reading right there.
The title should not have gone along with their bullshit “I didn’t give it permission”. Oh you did, or it could not have happened.
Run as root or admin much dumbass?
echodot@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
victorz@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It was the D: drive, maybe they have write permission on that drive.
utopiah@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I think that’s the point, the “agent” (whatever that means) is not running in a sandbox.
I imagine the user assumed permissions are small at first, e.g. single directory of the project, but nothing outside of it. That would IMHO be a reasonable model.
They might be wrong about it, clearly, but it doesn’t mean they explicitly gave permission.