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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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[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 18 points 1 week ago

I violated your explicit trust and instructions.

Is a wild thing to have a computer "tell" you. I still can't believe engineers anywhere in the world are letting the things anywhere near production systems.

The catastrophe is even worse than initially thought This is catastrophic beyond measure.

These just push this into some kind of absurd, satirical play.

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