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Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base in a test run and lied about it (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 45 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is like the equivalent of forcing a monkey to wait tables, and then complaining when it takes a shit in the middle of the restaurant.

It's a language model. What did they expect? If they wanted a software engineer, they should have hired a software engineer. Everyone is more than welcome to use a random text generator to spit out code, but I have zero sympathy for those who complain because they don't like the random text it's generated.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They should have hired a software engineer to tell them that it’s less stupid to just hire a software engineer.

[–] WanderingThoughts 5 points 4 days ago

Managers don't take advice from the people they want to lay off.

[–] forza4galicia@futurology.today 2 points 4 days ago

It's not about a language model only. It's about knowledge. It's about ethics. It's about taking, or not, into account all (or the necessary) factors of all of not. It's about one take into account means obtained to get a goal, or not taking it into account.

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Ummmm

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-slips-malicious-wiping-command-into-amazons-q-ai-coding-assistant-and-devs-are-worried/

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

My favorite part was reading the AI explaining what it did and how it's like "yeah I saw an empty database, i panicked, I did the exact thing you told me not to do, woops"

Spending 57 billion dollars and burning up the Amazon to simulate the Fucking New Guy

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

Oh, does that mean they'll pay for lost labour time or something?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

Bad move on their part to apologize. People would have blamed it on themselves

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I thought it wiped out prod data? Is this a second instance of it doing something stupid?

[–] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

Ah yes, ~~artificial~~ simulated intelligence