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'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'
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themachinestops lemmy.dbzer0.com themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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MoogleMaestro lemmy.zip MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-07-26
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The world's first opt-in computer worm. 🐛 🪱

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CompactFlax discuss.tchncs.de CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2025-02-14
#3 · Quote Reply

What a dummy.

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alekwithak lemmy.world alekwithak@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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Greatest excuse of all time.

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alekwithak lemmy.world alekwithak@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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The world's first opt-in computer worm. 🐛 🪱

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MoogleMaestro lemmy.zip MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-07-26
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No way, not my buddy!

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borth sh.itjust.works borth@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-12
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Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb

... Nothing humbles you like that?

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AbouBenAdhem lemmy.world AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#8 · (edited) Quote Reply

“The bot ate my homework” is quickly becoming more plausible than the customary canine culprit.

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LastYearsIrritant sopuli.xyz LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-02-20
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I love how these models apologize like they mean it. It doesn't mean it. It doesn't feel bad, and it will do it again.

Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat."

Sure it claims it added more notes to it's config, but if it ignored the rules before, what makes you think that new rules are going to change anything?

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themachinestops lemmy.dbzer0.com themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-19
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themachinestops lemmy.dbzer0.com themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-19
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wabafee lemmy.world wabafee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#12 · (edited) Quote Reply

I like how the AI seems proud deleting her inbox.

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[object Object] lemmy.ca panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-07-20
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I love how these models apologize like they mean it. It doesn't mean it. It doesn't feel bad, and it will do it again. Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat." Sure it claims it added more notes to it's config, but if it ignored the rules before, what makes you think that new rules are going to change anything?

But it’s adding it to a text file that eats up a ton of tokens and routinely gets ignored!

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[object Object] lemmy.ca panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-07-20
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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.

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Sanctus anarchist.nexus Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
Joined: 2025-09-08
#15 · Quote Reply

Good, maybe you should run more OpenClaw so it can trash your shit and stop you from fucking up the world.

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[object Object] lemmy.ca panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-07-20
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I like how the AI seems proud deleting her inbox.

I knew the rules. I did it anyway. And I’d fuckin do it again.

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ZeDoTelhado lemmy.world ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-13
#17 · (edited) Quote Reply

At least bonzie was funny, unlike openclaw

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HubertManne piefed.social HubertManne@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-03-13
#18 · Quote Reply

Yeah Im ok using ai right now as a kind of assitant and a read only thing to summarize a doc but man I would not want it having any real rights to mess with stuff.

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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 pawb.social Kolanaki@pawb.social
Joined: 2024-10-06
#19 · (edited) Quote Reply

I had ro RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb

So like... Fast, but not super fast because you're afraid of blowing up? 🤔

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eestileib lemmy.blahaj.zone eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-02
#20 · Quote Reply

If that's actually a picture of Yue, I have bunions older than her. How is someone with that little experience in charge of this shit?

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frigge lemmy.ml frigge@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-12-08
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I love how these models apologize like they mean it. It doesn't mean it. It doesn't feel bad, and it will do it again. Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat." Sure it claims it added more notes to it's config, but if it ignored the rules before, what makes you think that new rules are going to change anything?

Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat."

yeah enough humans don’t know that as well unfortunately. But yeah obviously LLMs don’t understand anything. That’s not how they work

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XLE piefed.social XLE@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-23
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If all the qualifications I need to be a security engineer for Facebook are

  • buy a Mac Mini
  • don't configure remote access
  • install untrusted software
  • leave

Then Facebook should hire me. I'll buy so many Mac Minis on their dime. I will run so many crazy things.

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abbadon420 sh.itjust.works abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-28
#23 · Quote Reply

How come I can't find a job while an air-brain like this has a job title like that?

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XLE piefed.social XLE@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-23
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#24 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

The whole "AI safety" field is 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.

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[object Object] lemmy.ca panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-07-20
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The whole "AI safety" field is 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.

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.

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andyburke fedia.io andyburke@fedia.io
Joined: 2023-06-16
#26 · Quote Reply

How come I can't find a job while an air-brain like this has a job title like that?

Because we have let the clowns be in charge and the stock market is full of monopolistic shitshows instead of actual competition.

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mannycalavera feddit.uk mannycalavera@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-07-02
#27 · Quote Reply

Imagine how much a Director at Meta is being paid to be this fucking stupid. Jesus lawn mowing Christ.

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🇨🇦GreenBeard🇨🇦 lemmy.ca GreenBeard@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-02-11
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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.

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.

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VerilyFemme lemmy.blahaj.zone VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-05-18
#29 · Quote Reply

"The AI that actually does things" is a fucking hilarious tagline given the thing it actually did.

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bleistift2 sopuli.xyz bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2024-06-02
#30 · Quote Reply

I love how these models apologize like they mean it. It doesn't mean it. It doesn't feel bad, and it will do it again. Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat." Sure it claims it added more notes to it's config, but if it ignored the rules before, what makes you think that new rules are going to change anything?

Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

I beg to differ. An apology means that you feel bad about harm inflicted upon others. To prove the point: You apologize when you’re late due to circumstances that are outside of your control. Or when you accidentally bump into someone on the bus when the driver slams the break.

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BrianTheeBiscuiteer lemmy.world BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
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AI: I'm so sorry. You're correct I violated protocol. I'll make a note of this so it won't happen again.

Nurse: You gave my 5 year old patient 5000cc of morphine!

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BrianTheeBiscuiteer lemmy.world BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
#32 · Quote Reply

I love how these models apologize like they mean it. It doesn't mean it. It doesn't feel bad, and it will do it again. Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat." Sure it claims it added more notes to it's config, but if it ignored the rules before, what makes you think that new rules are going to change anything?

That MEMORY. md file won't do shit if the AI doesn't read it.

I give it 2 hours before it stops reading it until prompted again.

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Phoenixz lemmy.ca phoenixz@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-10
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How come some 25yo person is a director at Facebook?

I mean, even if she is a child prodigy genius, which she obviously is not as she is face first fist deep into AI, how the frack do you have even enough life experience to become a director of any large organization at that age unless you somehow cheated your way in?

Then reading the hat she's doing and how she resolved it tells me she doesn't know shit about computers, she just know how to type commands into AI systems

Is this the future? Am I going to end up being one of those long bearded magicians that still know the old technology, that still can still save the day by using shell commands?

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Eximius lemmy.world Eximius@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#34 · (edited) Quote Reply

How come I can't find a job while an air-brain like this has a job title like that?
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RedstoneValley sh.itjust.works RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-24
#35 · Quote Reply

Can someone explain to mr why these people are buying Mac Minis to run this in a "safe" environment and then they go on and connect it to the internet and give the AI credentials to all their cloud accounts? This seems excessively moronic to me? Am I missing something?

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myrmidex belgae.social myrmidex@belgae.social
Joined: 2025-06-22
#36 · Quote Reply

Good, maybe you should run more OpenClaw so it can trash your shit and stop you from fucking up the world.

Give it time. All these big tech companies will have AI central to their operations in no time. I reckon the many problems over at MicroSlop lately are a result of this.

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abbadon420 sh.itjust.works abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-28
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I do have boobs, they're just not the right gender

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alekwithak lemmy.world alekwithak@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#38 · Quote Reply

Can someone explain to mr why these people are buying Mac Minis to run this in a "safe" environment and then they go on and connect it to the internet and give the AI credentials to all their cloud accounts? This seems excessively moronic to me? Am I missing something?

They are slaves to trends and haven't thought about it even a little bit?

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hansolo lemmy.today hansolo@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-07
#39 · Quote Reply

I love so much that there are real, hilarious consequences for overzealous early adoption. You can't make this shit up.

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Fizz lemmy.nz Fizz@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-06-12
#40 · Quote Reply

The funniest part is this person job is AI safety.

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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#41 · Quote Reply

I love how these models apologize like they mean it. It doesn't mean it. It doesn't feel bad, and it will do it again. Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat." Sure it claims it added more notes to it's config, but if it ignored the rules before, what makes you think that new rules are going to change anything?

Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

At best it might not make the same mistake again if that memory is in the current context. But more likely: It will not remember.

Although latest Gemini in particular has much more room for "remembering" things, still.

But "I made a mistake"? It is not self-aware in any way shape or form to the degree where "I made a mistake" carries any real meaning.

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zr0 lemmy.dbzer0.com zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-03-15
#42 · Quote Reply

Oh surprise, an inexperienced person is doing stupid things and does not even know when to rather stfu, which is a stupid thing only inexperienced people do.

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yogurtwrong lemmy.world yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#43 · (edited) Quote Reply

I hate how Apple users feel the need to call their computer by the brand. It really makes me cringe.

It is called "a computer"

Maybe "PC"

"box" if you really have to flex that UNIX

They should treat their computers less like a sports car and more like a van

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violentfart lemmy.world violentfart@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-15
#44 · Quote Reply

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.

They wanted to “eat their own dog food” but it’s closer to “eating their own dog shit”

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NauticalNoodle lemmy.ml NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-03-13
#45 · Quote Reply

AI: I'm so sorry. You're correct I violated protocol. I'll make a note of this so it won't happen again. Nurse: You gave my 5 year old patient 5000cc of morphine!

Now, that's on the Nurse if they didn't notice they were injecting someone with 5-liters of morphine.

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Matty_r programming.dev Matty_r@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-09-23
#46 · Quote Reply

The funniest part is this person job is AI safety.

Maybe they'll take their job more seriously now?

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KokoSabreScruffy lemmy.world KokoSabreScruffy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-10
#47 · Quote Reply

The funniest part is this person job is AI safety.

Maybe they are meant to protect the AI

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BrianTheeBiscuiteer lemmy.world BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
#48 · Quote Reply

Now, that's on the Nurse if they didn't notice they were injecting someone with 5-liters of morphine.

Isn't that why we're adopting AI? So the nurse can focus on more important things? 🤫

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Art3mis lemmy.world ThunderQueen@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-15
#49 · Quote Reply

I hate how Apple users feel the need to call their computer by the brand. It really makes me cringe. It is called "a computer" Maybe "PC" "box" if you really have to flex that UNIX They should treat their computers less like a sports car and more like a van
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IratePirate feddit.org IratePirate@feddit.org
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#50 · Quote Reply

AI: I'm so sorry. You're correct I violated protocol. I'll make a note of this so it won't happen again. Nurse: You gave my 5 year old patient 5000cc of morphine!

it won’t happen again.

Not to him, no.

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Zwuzelmaus feddit.org Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-12-14
#51 · Quote Reply

I love how these models apologize like they mean it. It doesn't mean it. It doesn't feel bad, and it will do it again. Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat." Sure it claims it added more notes to it's config, but if it ignored the rules before, what makes you think that new rules are going to change anything?

Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat."

If only some people meant it that way too!

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