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along_the_road beehaw.org along_the_road@beehaw.org
Joined: 2023-06-24
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GregorGizeh lemmy.zip GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-08-15
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"Rogue AI" as if it's some sentient evil thing when its just a llm with too many permissions... This timeline is so dystopian, but simultaneously incredibly lame i hate it.

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Butterbee (She/Her) beehaw.org Butterbee@beehaw.org
Joined: 2023-01-27
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"Flagrant security lapse caused an incident when software engineer uses inappropriate tool for the job."

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Hirom beehaw.org Hirom@beehaw.org
Joined: 2023-03-02
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According to Clayton, the AI agent involved didn’t take any technical action itself, beyond posting inaccurate technical advice, something a human could have also done.

Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale.

If that LLM were an employee it would get a formal blame, and then demoted or fired as it continues.

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Hirom beehaw.org Hirom@beehaw.org
Joined: 2023-03-02
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"Rogue AI" as if it's some sentient evil thing when its just a llm with too many permissions... This timeline is so dystopian, but simultaneously incredibly lame i hate it.

It shows LLMs can do significant harm without the capabilities of an AGI.

Overhyping LLMs and overinflating their capabilities makes things worse, as people are less skeptical of LLM output.

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sem piefed.blahaj.zone sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-09-04
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"Flagrant security lapse caused an incident when software engineer uses inappropriate tool for the job."

"Inappropriate tool also weirdly good at gas lighting engineers and managers"

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James R Kirk startrek.website Kirk@startrek.website
Joined: 2025-03-01
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"Rogue AI" as if it's some sentient evil thing when its just a llm with too many permissions... This timeline is so dystopian, but simultaneously incredibly lame i hate it.

It's also a pretty big exaggeration of what actually happened which is that it generated and posted some technically inaccurate information.

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Tim lemmy.snowgoons.ro timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro
Joined: 2026-01-27
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According to Clayton, the AI agent involved didn’t take any technical action itself, beyond posting inaccurate technical advice, something a human could have also done. Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale. If that LLM were an employee it would get a formal blame, and then demoted or fired as it continues.

That sounds sweetly naive. "Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale" sounds like the perfect credentials for a career in consultancy.

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irelephant [he/him] lemmy.dbzer0.com irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-04
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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 pawb.social Kolanaki@pawb.social
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"We installed Gemini into all US nuclear silos."

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Hirom beehaw.org Hirom@beehaw.org
Joined: 2023-03-02
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That sounds sweetly naive. "Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale" sounds like the perfect credentials for a career in consultancy.

That's a good way to represent LLMs. Very bad and very prolific consultants.

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foxwolf pawb.social foxwolf@pawb.social
Joined: 2026-02-02
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According to Clayton, the AI agent involved didn’t take any technical action itself, beyond posting inaccurate technical advice, something a human could have also done. Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale. If that LLM were an employee it would get a formal blame, and then demoted or fired as it continues.

Wait til this starts happening in the construction industry.

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randomwords midwest.social randomwords@midwest.social
Joined: 2023-06-01
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"Inappropriate tool also weirdly good at gas lighting engineers and managers"

Let's be real, managers gaslight themselves daily.

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bryndos fedia.io bryndos@fedia.io
Joined: 2025-07-28
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That's a good way to represent LLMs. Very bad and very prolific consultants.

Yeah, they'd get promoted for sure where i work.

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