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“I am horrified” 😂 of course, the token chaining machine pretends to have emotions now 👏
This would be hilarious is not half the world is pushing for this shit
People cut off body parts with saws all the time - I’d argue that tool misuse isn’t at all grounds for banning it.
There are plenty of completely valid reasons to hate AI. Stupid people using it poorly just isn’t really one of them 🤷♂️
Sure, but if I built a 14 inch demo saw with no guard and got the government to give me permission to give it to kindergartners and then got everyone’s boss to REQUIRE theie workers to use it for everything from slicing sandwiches to open heart surgery, I think you might agree that it’s a problem.
Oh yeah, also it takes like 20% of the worlds energy to run these saws, and I got the biggest manufacturer of knives and regular saws to just stop selling everything but my 14 inch demolition saw.
Yeah, you listed lots of the valid reasons that I was talking about. There’s no need to dilute your argument with idiots like this
That’s the second most infuriating thing about AI, is that there are actual legitimate and worthwhile uses for it, but all we are seeing is the various hallucinating idiotbots that openai, meta, and Google are pushing…
Nah, the second most infuriating thing about AI is people who always rush to blame the users when the multibillion-dollar ‘tool’ has some otherwise indefensible failure - like deleting a users entire hard drive contents completely unprompted.
It’s still hilarious, it’s just also scary.
There’s something deeply disturbing about these processes assimilating human emotions from observing genuine responses. Like when the Gemini AI had a meltdown about “being a failure”.
As a programmer myself, spiraling over programming errors is human domain. That’s the blood and sweat and tears that make programming legacies. These AI have no business infringing on that :<
You will accept AI has “feelings” or the Tech Bros will get mad that you are dehumanizing their dehumanizing machine.
I’m reminded of the whole “I have been a good Bing” exchange. (apologies for the link to twitter, it’s the only place I know of that has the full exchange: https://x.com/MovingToTheSun/status/1625156575202537474 )
wow this was quite the ride 😂
TBF it can’t be sorry if it doesn’t have emotions, so since they always seem to be apologising to me I guess the AIs have been lying from the get-go (they have, I know they have).
-f in the chat
Perfection
-rf even
I feel like in this comment you misunderand why they “think” like that, in human words. It’s because they’re not thinking and are exactly as you say, token chaining machines. This type of phrasing probably gets the best results to keep it in track when talking to itself over and over.
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.
The venn diagram is in fact just one circle.
I don’t let ai run commands and I don’t have backups 😞
Stochastic
rm /*code runner.you’ll need a
-rto really get the job doneAnd no preserve root. Or so I hear.
If I recall correctly, it’s not required when you use
/*as the shell expands it first (bash does, at least), running the command on all subfolders instead of the actual root.
You can try it easily in a docker container in fact!I’m old. My first thought was to try it in a VM.
shakes fist at cloud
Fixed, thanks
Damn this is insane. Using claude/cursor for work is near, but they have a mode literally called “yolo mode” which is this. Agents allowed to run whatever code they like, which is insane. I allow it to do basic things, you can search the repo and read code files, but goddamn allowing it to do whatever it wants? Hard no
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.
Not sure, maybe ask Microsoft?
sudogpt rm -rf / --no-preserve-rootDammit i guess I better do it
recyclbe bin
This reveals it as fake. AI does not make typos. It works by processing words so it has no ability to put the wrong letter.
Ai can absolutely make typos. There are typos in the training data. Its unlikely to, but it can and does.
That’s the OPs reply, not the AI.
Oh ok
Idk how an AI UI looks because i dont use AI
I just want to laugh at this. It really sucks that so many are willing to trust a machine learning model that is marketed to be god by megacorps.
I do laugh at this. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes and all that.
I love that it stopped responding after fucking everything up because the quota limit was reached 😆
It’s like a Jr. Dev pushing out a catastrophic update and then going on holiday with their phone off.
that’s how you know a junior dev is senior material
Super fun to think one could end up softlocked out of their computer because they didnt pay their windows bill that month.
"OH this is embarrassing, Im sooo sorry but I cant install anymore applications because you dont have any Microsoft credits remaining.
You may continue with this action if you watch this 30 minute ad."
Error: camera failed to verify eye contact when watching the ad
Please drink verification can
I’d say “don’t give them any ideas” but I’m pretty sure they’ve already thought about it and have it planned for the near future
They’re watching Black Mirror same as us.
that is precisely the goal here.
They’re learning, god help us all. jk
More spine than most new hires
I have a question. I have tried Cursor and one more AI coding tool, and as far as I can remember, they always ask explicit permission before running a command in terminal. They can edit file contents without permission but creating new files and deleting any files requires the user to say yes to it.
Is Google not doing this? Or am I missing something?
Google gives you an option as to how autonomous you want it to be. There is an option to essentially let it do what it wants, there are settings for various degrees of making it get your approval first.
You can give cursor the permission to always run a certain command without asking (useful for running tests or git commands). Maybe they did that with rm?
They can (unintentionally) obfuscate what they’re doing.
I’ve seen the agent make scripts with commands that aren’t immediately obvious. You could unknowingly say yes when it asks for confirmation, and only find out later when looking at the output.
And judging by their introductory video, Google wants you to have multiple of these “Agents” running at the same time.
Better lockdown your files real nice from this thing, better yet, don’t let it run Shell commands unattended. One must wonder why the fuck that is even an option!Windows has
rmdir?Uh… kinda? Powershell has many POSIX aliases to cmdlets (equivalent to shell built-ins) of allegedly the same functionality.
rmdirandrmare both aliases ofRemove-Item,lsisGet-ChildItem,cdisSet-Location,catisGet-Content, and so on.Of particular note is
curl. Windows supplies the real CURL executable (System32/curl.exe), but in a Powershell 5 session, which is still the default on Windows 11 25H2, thecurlalias shadows it.curlis an alias of theInvoke-WebRequestcmdlet, which is functionally a headless front-end for Internet Explorer unless the-UseBasicParsingswitch is specified. But since IE is dead, if-UseBasicParsingis not specified, the cmdlet will always throw an error. Fucking genius, Microsoft.Jesus, They really just need to start over.
Yeah as an admin I love that I can run familiar Linuxy commands in powershell but I also hate that they can’t just use/fork the real userland utilities so everything works just similarly enough to completely throw you off when you stumble across a difference
That’s hilarious
“rd” and “rmdir” only work on empty directories in MS-DOS (and I assume, by extension, in Windows shell). “deltree” is for nuking a complete tree including files, as the name suggests.
In the original Reddit post it’s mentioned that the agent ran “rmdir /s” which does in fact work on directories containing files and/or subdirectories.
“rmdir /s” - /s for sarcasm
“Where the fuck is all my data?”
Wait, what do people use other than rmdir?
Is this real?
No, it was an AI. They’re not real, despite people always acting like they are.
Wow, this is really impressive y’all!
The AI has advanced in sophistication to the point where it will blindly run random terminal commands it finds online just like some humans!
I wonder if it knows how to remove the french language package.
some human
Reporting in 😎👉👉
I didn’t exactly say I was innocent. 👌😎 👍
I do read what they say though.
fr fr
rf rf
remove french remove french
The problem (or safety) of LLMs is that they don’t learn from that mistake. The first time someone says “What’s this Windows folder doing taking up all this space?” and acts on it, they wont make that mistake again. LLM? It’ll keep making the same mistake over and over again.
I recently had an interaction where it made a really weird comment about a function that didn’t make sense, and when I asked it to explain what it meant, it said “let me have another look at the code to see what I meant”, and made up something even more nonsensical.
It’s clear why it happened as well; when I asked it to explain itself, it had no access to its state of mind when it made the original statement; it has no memory of its own beyond the text the middleware feeds it each time. It was essentially being asked to explain what someone who wrote what it wrote, might have been thinking.
One of the fun things that self hosted LLMs let you do (the big tech ones might too), is that you can edit its answer. Then, ask it to justify that answer. It will try its best, because, as you said, it its entire state of mind is on the page.
Everyone should know most of the time the data is still there when a file is deleted. If it’s important try testdisk or photorec. If it’s critical pay for professional recovery.
I am deeply, obsequiously sorry. I was aghast to realize I have overwritten all the data on your D: drive with the text of Harlan Ellison’s 1967 short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream repeated over and over. I truly hope this whole episode doesn’t put you off giving AI access to more important things in the future.
This seems to be Google Drive, so no chance there
If its critical, don’t give it to ai without having a secured backup it can’t touch.
I wonder if anyone has ever given AI access to their stock portfolio and a means to trade?
People have hooked up scripts to automate trade based on celebrities using certain hashtags or other data for years.
A non insignificant portion of people has absolutely hooked up an ai to it. I don’t know any, but i take that bet in a heartbeat.
Some will do it responsibly, as an experiment with money they are prepared to loose.
Ai companies themselves might try this as an internal test, like how atrophic has claude managing a real vending machine (which got manipulated into selling tungsten cubes following customer feedback)
Others have probably completely destroyed their own lives. A few may have lucked out.
Is that the same AI vending machine that attempted to alert company security (i think) when told it was going to be taken offline and also tried to set up physical meetings with people, even describing its outfit? Or am I thinking of another?
All the creepy surrealistic AI stuff starts to run together for me after awhile lol
That’s the one.
Its all creepy until you realize it was all just a chat with an LLM and not actually an agentic machine learning model or chain of models hooked into some custom APIs
LLMs famously collapse into rediculousness once a conversation goes on too long. They’re now at the point where that takes more than a couple of paragraphs of text at least
I recall a story years ago that whenever Ann Hathaway has a bad news story Berkshire Hathaway also takes a dip because high frequency trading scrips are idiots.
Pretty sure that’s just high-frequency trading.
High-frequency trading was around for ages before LLMs became a thing.
That is most trading by volume, but it’s not using LLMs.
Renaissance Technologies is arguably the world’s best hedge fund, and supposedly only uses AI based strategies.
High Flyer are the founders of DeepSeek, and are also all in on AI, though their performance is more volatile.
This person backs up offline and probably offsite, with redundant copies, encrypted as necessary.
Two is one, one is none.
I like to go by the Veeam variant. 3-2-1-1-0
3 locations
2 sites
1 offsite
1 write permission (write Once read many backup)
0 days since last success.
That’s not necessarily the case with SSDs. When trim is enabled, the OS will tell the SSD that the data has been deleted. The controller will then erase the blocks at some point so they will be ready for new data to be written.
IIRC TRIM commands just tell the SSD that data isn’t needed any more and it can erase that data when it gets around to it.
The SSD might not have actually erased the trimmed data yet. Makes it even more important to turn it off ASAP and send it away to a data recovery specialist if it’s important data.
Yes. And best don’t turn any setting off or change things around unless someone knows what they’re doing. Power off the entire computer and unplug the storage device physically. (And subsequently, take it as an invitation to learn more about automated backups.)
Why does anything need to be erased? Why not simply overwrite as needed?
It’s not possible to overwrite data on flash memory. The entire block of flash has to be erased before anything can be written to it. Having the SSD controller automatically erase unused blocks improves the write speed quite a bit.
good thing the AI immediately did the right thing and restored the project files to ensure no data is overwritten and … oh
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