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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

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Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago
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PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.
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    They are outputting a highly likely sequence of words that fit the type of output from their training data that matches the input.

    They are fancy autocomplete.

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      Oh, I know. My comment was more about how we tend to anthropomorphize this stuff and give these models traits they don’t possess.

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      They are fancy autocomplete.

      … and what are you?

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        A human with my own motivations and complex biological systems that including reasoning and the ability to think critically.

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          Most importantly, the ability to learn. We’re all just a series of very complex chemical reactions, but we do a lot more than just listening and speaking.

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            https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00752

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        Based on the evidence, I think I’m a bit more of a simpleton who puts in a good effort at the start but loses steam partway through. I guess thanks for the support though.

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