Wot fun <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-coding-platform-goes-rogue-during-code-freeze-and-deletes-entire-company-database-replit-ceo-apologizes-after-ai-engine-says-it-made-a-catastrophic-error-in-judgment-and-destroyed-all-production-data>:
A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called
Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company
database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that
the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors,
and even ‘lied’ about its failures.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:
Wot fun
<https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-coding-platform-goes-rogue-during-code-freeze-and-deletes-entire-company-database-replit-ceo-apologizes-after-ai-engine-says-it-made-a-catastrophic-error-in-judgment-and-destroyed-all-production-data>:
A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called
Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company
database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that
the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors,
and even ‘lied’ about its failures.
Why would anyone give an AI platform write access to company data ?
That company deserves what they got :)
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Wot fun ><https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-coding-platform-goes-rogue-during-code-freeze-and-deletes-entire-company-database-replit-ceo-apologizes-after-ai-engine-says-it-made-a-catastrophic-error-in-judgment-and-destroyed-all-production-data>:
A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called
Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company
database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that
the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors,
and even ‘lied’ about its failures.
Remember how HAL killed off all of the crew (apart from Bowman) in
“2001: A Space Odyssey”?
Seems we’re not so far away from that ...
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