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'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error'

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/i-had-to-run-to-my-mac-mini-like-i-was-defusing-a-bomb-openclaw-ai-chose-to-speedrun-deleting-meta-ai-safety-directors-inbox-due-to-a-rookie-error/

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    The funniest part is this person job is AI safety.

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I love so much that there are real, hilarious consequences for overzealous early adoption. You can’t make this shit up.

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  • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love how these models apologize like they mean it. It doesn’t mean it. It doesn’t feel bad, and it will do it again.

    Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

    Sure it claims it added more notes to it’s config, but if it ignored the rules before, what makes you think that new rules are going to change anything?

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    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      That MEMORY. md file won’t do shit if the AI doesn’t read it.

      I give it 2 hours before it stops reading it until prompted again.

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But it’s adding it to a text file that eats up a ton of tokens and routinely gets ignored!

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    • frigge@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

      yeah enough humans don’t know that as well unfortunately. But yeah obviously LLMs don’t understand anything. That’s not how they work

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    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

      I beg to differ. An apology means that you feel bad about harm inflicted upon others. To prove the point: You apologize when you’re late due to circumstances that are outside of your control. Or when you accidentally bump into someone on the bus when the driver slams the break.

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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    AI: I’m so sorry. You’re correct I violated protocol. I’ll make a note of this so it won’t happen again.

    Nurse: You gave my 5 year old patient 5000cc of morphine!

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I was the director of AI safety, and I used AI to own and delete my inbox, I sure as shit would never tell a soul.

    This is pure unbridled incompetence.

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The whole “AI safety” field is rooted in this incompetent. These people that will tell you AI is on the verge of creating a bioweapon, and then run random code in a command line. Completely and totally unserious.

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      • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I don’t know what the hell has happened, but some of these people are basically human jellyfish. Big tech is full of them now.

        No thought enters their mind, but they dodge the layoffs and the PIPs and get promoted like this.

        I don’t fucking get it.

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  • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The world’s first opt-in computer worm. 🐛 🪱

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    • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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      • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No way, not my buddy!

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      • ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        At least is was funny, unlike opneclaw

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  • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Can someone explain to mr why these people are buying Mac Minis to run this in a “safe” environment and then they go on and connect it to the internet and give the AI credentials to all their cloud accounts? This seems excessively moronic to me? Am I missing something?

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    • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      They are slaves to trends and haven’t thought about it even a little bit?

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “A bot ate my homework” is quickly becoming more plausible than the traditional canine culprit.

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  • borth@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb

    … Nothing humbles you like that?

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If all the qualifications I need to be a security engineer for Facebook are * buy a Mac Mini * don’t configure remote access * install untrusted software * leave

    Then Facebook should hire me. I’ll buy so many Mac Minis on their dime. I will run so many crazy things.

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  • themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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      • wabafee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I like how it seems proud that the AI deleted her inbox.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    How come some 25yo person is a director at Facebook?

    I mean, even if she is a child prodigy genius, which she obviously is not as she is face first fist deep into AI, how the frack do you have even enough life experience to become a director of any large organization at that age unless you somehow cheated your way in?

    Then reading the hat she’s doing and how she resolved it tells me she doesn’t know shit about computers, she just know how to type commands into AI systems

    Is this the future? Am I going to end up being one of those long bearded magicians that still know the old technology, that still can still save the day by using shell commands?

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  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    “The AI that actually does things” is a fucking hilarious tagline given the thing it actually did.

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  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How come I can’t find a job while an air-brain like this has a job title like that?

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    • Eximius@lemmy.world ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I think you should open up your orifice for certain fellatory services, perhaps, allegedly. Also maybe boobs.

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      • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I do have boobs, they’re just not the right gender

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What a dummy.

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Imagine how much a Director at Meta is being paid to be this fucking stupid. Jesus lawn mowing Christ.

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  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good, maybe you should run more OpenClaw so it can trash your shit and stop you from fucking up the world.

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    • myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Give it time. All these big tech companies will have AI central to their operations in no time. I reckon the many problems over at MicroSlop lately are a result of this.

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  • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My wifes email box is full. How can i do this intentionally? /s

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  • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Greatest excuse of all time.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had ro RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb

    So like… Fast, but not super fast because you’re afraid of dying? 🤔

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  • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If that’s actually a picture of Yue, I have bunions older than her. How is someone with that little experience in charge of this shit?

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah Im ok using ai right now as a kind of assitant and a read only thing to summarize a doc but man I would not want it having any real rights to mess with stuff.

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