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[-] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 225 points 3 months 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?

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 87 points 3 months ago

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

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months 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.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 months 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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[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 132 points 3 months 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.

[-] XLE@piefed.social 71 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The whole "AI safety" field is 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.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 months 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.

[-] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 months ago

It's just the natural progression of a disease that spreads outwards from Management. The bosses want yes-men, not people capable of independent thought.

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[-] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 116 points 3 months ago

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

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 85 points 3 months ago
[-] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 33 points 3 months ago

No way, not my buddy!

[-] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

At least bonzie was funny, unlike openclaw

[-] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I hate how Apple users feel the need to call their computer by the brand. It really makes me cringe.

It is called "a computer"

Maybe "PC"

"box" if you really have to flex that UNIX

They should treat their computers less like a sports car and more like a van

[-] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

I mean, isnt that the entire point of Apple? Brand recognition and percieved status attributed to said brand. Its like rappers and gucci belts or country artists and ford pickups

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[-] borth@sh.itjust.works 59 points 3 months 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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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 51 points 3 months 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?

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 months ago

No, you're not missing anything.

They're morons.

Thats our ruling elite; a bunch of fucking morons with egos and low self awareness at best, literally child raping and murdering pedophiles at worst.

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months 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!

[-] IratePirate@feddit.org 21 points 3 months ago

it won’t happen again.

Not to him, no.

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[-] Dultas@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago

The S in OpenClaw stands for security.

[-] renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 44 points 3 months ago

you can like... enforce this rule programatically? you don't have to say "pretty please" to ai? basically, when AI requests some potentially unwanted thing (like deleting an email), this request goes through a proxy that asks the human for confirmation. Also you can have a safe word set up in the chat interface to act as a killswitch. I thought these are ABCs of ai safety but apparently these are foreign concepts to this "safety director"

[-] zqps@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The people who internalize this would never engage with a chatbot in this way in the first place. To them this is another intelligence they're conversing with, where you get what you need by following social decorum, and enforcing your will amounts to abuse.

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 23 points 3 months ago

Program? Like a fucking farmer?

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[-] XLE@piefed.social 43 points 3 months 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.

[-] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 41 points 3 months ago

They released a version recently that fixed over 60 security vulnerabilities. All of them were high or critical.

How many more are there to find? Thousands?

Whoever uses this on a PC with anything useful on it, is absolutely insane.

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 38 points 3 months ago

Yep that's about the level of intelligence I would expect from Meta's AI safety director.

Doing the one thing that you're never supposed to do, letting an AI loose on anything sensitive.

For her next trick she's going to run while holding scissors in one hand and a bottle of boiling acid in the other. What could go wrong.

[-] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 3 months ago
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[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I like how the AI seems proud deleting her inbox.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 49 points 3 months ago

I knew the rules. I did it anyway. And I’d fuckin do it again.

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 34 points 3 months ago

Yes I remember. And I violated it.

Asimov rolling in his grave.

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 33 points 3 months 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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[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 months 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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[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

She's lucky all she got were some deleted emails.
Given how insecure this whole ordeal is and the fact that she gave it full access to her REAL Inbox, someone could have phished the ever living fuck out of her and Meta just by sending an email with malicious prompt written on white text or hiding messages zero-width characters and other wacky antics.
Real Looney Tunes shit, congratulations to all involved.

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[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

And execs think we're going to give these products our bank details and ask them to book flights and stuff. . ?

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[-] xep@discuss.online 22 points 3 months ago

This smells like guerilla marketing to me.

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[-] PointyFluff@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago

First of all. BULLSHIT. Second. why would you give a bot write-access to your filesystem.

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[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 19 points 3 months ago

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

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Jokes on you; she probably still earns more money than most of us...

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[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Run? Like physically run? You install a server on your hardware without setting up remote access? Even plug and play one-click solutions like tailscale??

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[-] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

The I'm sorry part is always great, I always wanted an apology by an LLM not that it works as specified 😆

It can be like your least competent colleague on roids

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[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 16 points 3 months 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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[-] VerilyFemme 16 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 months ago

What a dummy.

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