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@hdy fools:
The now-viral X post from Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue reads, at first, like satire. She told her OpenClaw AI agent to check her overstuffed email inbox and suggest what to delete or archive.
The agent proceeded to run amok. It started deleting all her email in a “speed run” while ignoring her commands from her phone telling it to stop.
“I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb,” she wrote, posting images of the ignored stop prompts as receipts.
@hby I am sadly, not surprised. I am surprised that engineers can overlook this and *trust* it to write code as well as a thoughtful engineer.
Sure, it's faster... but that's not really the point, if it's wrong.
@hby Just imagine what rumors you’d hear in the halls! 🙂 Folks would be telling all kinds of stories. Glorious!
I would like to be back teaching, but the money isn't there, sadly, and Liza must be paid, sadly. It is something that needs fixing, and LLMs are not the answer.
@hby Diabolical! 🙂 It would have been no different to those that knew the answer, but to the “guessing” folks, it would make things very hard indeed.
Yes... LLMs don't decrease the value of an EE degree... there have always been shortcuts, and always will be. Those that want to learn won't use them.