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"I am deeply deeply sorry"
I wonder how big the crossover is between people that let AI run commands for them, and people that don't have a single reliable backup system in place. Probably pretty large.
I don't let ai run commands and I don't have backups 😞
The venn diagram is in fact just one circle.
Even Google employees were instructed not to use this.
Ironically D: is probably the face they were making when they realized what happened.
Let's rmdir that D: and turn it into a C:
And yet, they'll still keep tryjbg to shove it down our throats.
"Did I give you permission to delete my D:\ drive?"
Hmm... the answer here is probably YES. I doubt whatever agent he used defaulted to the ability to run all commands unsupervised.
He either approved a command that looked harmless but nuked D:\ OR he whitelisted the agent to run rmdir one day, and that whitelist remained until now.
There's a good reason why people that choose to run agents with the ability to run commands at least try to sandbox it to limit the blast radius.
This guy let an LLM raw dog his CMD.EXE and now he's sad that it made a mistake (as LLMs will do).
Next time, don't point the gun at your foot and complain when it gets blown off.
The user explained what exactly went wrong later on. The AI gave a list of instructions as steps, and one of the steps was deleting a specific Node.js folder on that D:\ drive. The user didn't want to follow the steps and just said "do everything for me" which the AI prompted for confirmation and received. The AI then indeed ran commands freely, with the same privilege as the user, however this being an AI the commands were broken and simply deleted the root of the drive rather than just one folder.
So yes, technically the AI didn't simply delete the drive - it asked for confirmation first. But also yes, the AI did make a dumb mistake.
Some day someone with a high military rank, in one of the nuclear armed countries (probably the US), will ask an AI play a song from youtube. Then an hour later the world will be in ashes. That's how the "Judgement day" is going to happen imo. Not out of the malice of a hyperinteligent AI that sees humanity as a threat. Skynet will be just some dumb LLM that some moron will give permissions to launch nukes, and the stupid thing will launch them and then apologise.
"No, you absolutely did not give me permission to do that. I am looking at the logs from a previous step, and I am horrified to see that the command I ran to load the daemon (launchctl) appears to have incorrectly targeted all life on earth..."
I have been into AI Safety since before chat gpt.
I used to get into these arguments with people that thought we could never lose control of AI because we were smart enough to keep it contained.
The rise of LLMs have effectively neutered that argument since being even remotely interesting was enough for a vast swath of people to just give it root access to the internet and fall all over themselves inventing competing protocols to empower it to do stuff without our supervision.
The biggest concern I've always had since I first became really aware of the potential for AI was that someone would eventually do something stupid with it while thinking they are fully in control despite the whole thing being a black box.
Thoughts for 25s
Prayers for 7s
I love how it just vanishes into a puff of logic at the end.
"Logic" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there lol
lol.
lmao even.
Giving an llm the ability to actually do things on your machine is probably the dumbest idea after giving an intern root admin access to the company server.
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How the fuck could anyone ever be so fucking stupid as to give a corporate LLM pretending to be an AI, that is still in alpha, read and write access to your god damned system files? They are a dangerously stupid human being and they 100% deserved this.
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