David GerardJan 28

Clawdbot is an exciting new way to spend $300/day on AI with Anthropic.

It's a personal assistant? and it's a shitty security disaster of course

my theory: Anthropic is going for the mobile game model and inducing gambling addiction in the most horrible SV AI bros

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760237

EDIT: oh lol from reddit:

> "clawdbot" is a crypto currency fueled product with loads of aggresive fans

that explains quite a lot

Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant | Hacker News

Show threadmx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)
@davidgerard we seriously don't understand why one would want to run code that nobody wrote, let alone feed their entire browser database, app token, and maildir tree into it, but of course people are just jumping at the chance, enthusiastic to do so
Jan 28 at 12:45amWeb
Show threadEveryday FreethoughtJan 28

@atax1a @davidgerard

My concern is not that nobody wrote the code, it is that nobody looked at it (at least it seems like they never do).

Vibe coders will say "It wrote the tests and they all passed!" How do they know the tests were any good?

Or are they just impressed with large numbers?

Show threadmx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Jan 28
@EFreethought @davidgerard nobody wrote the code, nobody can read it. it isn't code, it's the software equivalent of a prion and a gish gallop. the slop overwhelms all reasoning capability. it wouldnt be better if it was read by anyone, that would give it a false sense of legitimacy
Show threadThe Orange ThemeJan 28
@atax1a @EFreethought @davidgerard I swear, you could write a program that just printf()s "Task completed." for a bunch of things, and these rubes wouldn't even question it. You could exfiltrate their home directory, or straight up just delete it, or backdoor their system (for sweet, sweet residential IPs), and they would neither know nor care. Were I evil, I would release "Ultimate AI Helper Bot 8000 McDeluxe", and when you run it, it fills your hard drive with zeros.
Show threadmx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Jan 29

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/115967766890572642

@theorangetheme @EFreethought @davidgerard and how

Show threadThe Orange ThemeJan 29
@atax1a @EFreethought @davidgerard I'm sold. Here's $20 million in seed funding. 🤝
Show threadIdiran XoxarleJan 29

@EFreethought @atax1a @davidgerard

Better yet: "it debugged itself".