themachinestopsFeb 24

'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'

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/64328574

'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' - Divisions by zero

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Show threadpanda_abyss

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.

Feb 24 at 5:10pmWeb
Show threadXLEFeb 24
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.
Show threadpanda_abyssFeb 24

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.

Show threadGreenBeardFeb 24
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.
Show threadSkyeStarfallFeb 24

In other words, it’s why authoritarianism always fail

And capitalism is very specifically not a democratic economic system. There’s a hierarchy. The owners are the ones in power

Show threadEufalconimorphFeb 26
The “AI safety” field is about two things: marketing AIs as so powerful that they’re risky to use but riskier to get left behind by competitors using, and keeping AIs from doing so much brand damage that stock price suffers. This story is about marketing an AI as powerful.
Show threadviolentfartFeb 24
They wanted to “eat their own dog food” but it’s closer to “eating their own dog shit”
Show threadZwuzelmausFeb 24

If I was the director of AI safety, […] would never tell a soul.

As a director of something, you are kinda public person. No way to just not tell.

Show threadpanda_abyssFeb 24
Okay but this is like the armoury master person shooting their own foot with a loaded gun when they were juggling guns.
Show threadZwuzelmausFeb 24
Then the public wants to know where that hole in the director’s foot comes from.
Show threadCmdrShepard49Feb 24
How would the public find out that this woman’s email inbox got deleted though?
Show threadZwuzelmausFeb 25
Admins exist, and they talk.
Show threadAbidanYreFeb 25
Lee Paige has entered the chat
DEA Agent Lee Paige Shoots Self in Leg

YouTube
Show threadpanda_abyssFeb 25
Remarkably well composed after shooting himself
Show threadsp3ctr4lFeb 25

Yep.

These people are all fucking complete clowns.

It would be one thing if they were just evil, but they have such an inflated view of themselves that they have no self awareness.

Fucking corpos man.

Show threadcriss_crossFeb 25
If I was a director of AI safety I wouldn’t let openclaw within 100feet of anything. Let alone my work machine.
Show threadLiveLMFeb 25
If the Director of AI Safety is plugging code with extensive security flaws documented and reported into their real life inbox, imagine the Average Joe.
Show threadWispy2891Feb 25

Especially your work mailbox, that is a prime target for hackers and scammers, where a hidden prompt for prompt injection isn’t that impossibile.

This IMHO is a fireable offense, not a funny anecdote

Show threadStriderFeb 25
Which is par for the course on current ‘AI’.