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

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[-] Bongles@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 month ago

This replit thing... does it just exist all the time? Doing whatever it wants to your code at all times? If you have a coding freeze why is it running?

If real this is dumber than the lawyers using AI and not checking it's references.

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