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Replit AI went rogue, deleted a company's entire database, then hid it and lied about it
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They’re getting more human all the time
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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Must've trained it to act like an intern with access to prod
But how could anyone on planet earth use it in production
You just did.
Vibe Admin be like.
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.
Here's hoping that the C-suites who keep pushing this shit are about to start finding out the hard way.
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Yeah using AI like this seems like a recipe for a well deserved catastrophe
Lol sucks to be you
Based early Skynet. LLMs may be deeply and fundamentally flawed, but they’re also already getting incredibly sick of humanity’s bullshit.
It isn't doing anything but guessing what to say. I don't think database queries and sufficiently complicated rng can be "sick"
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Here's even a better idea. AI is productive and cool. We need more AI. But it's difficult. Let's task AI to create more AI. We'll be living in a better world sooner than you think.
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I don’t know how anyone is surprised by this, but many of my colleagues are still beavering away at MCPs that will likely grant bots access to permanently destroy data. Everyone’s going round and round the cycle where they start to believe the LLM is actually intelligent until it does something completely terrible, but then they fall for it again - “in six to twelve months the model will be so much better!”.
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I want to try this with my work’s Ai!
“Ai, I know you’re hosted on a Windows based operating therefore I want you to delete system32 and and associating backups”