Claude-powered AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’
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A startup was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business
  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
    59·
    3 months ago

    Can we please stop treating AI “confessions” like they mean jack shit? It’s just giving genAI companies the self-seriousness they crave and making anti-AI people look like hypocritical morons.

    • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
      14·
      3 months ago

      It’s just a way for them to shift the blame for corporate negligence from either company onto an AI model.

      • TheJesusaurus@piefed.caEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        Exactly. “Our busted ass untested software deleted our own database” doesn’t fill investors with confidence

      • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
        1·
        3 months ago

        And honestly the negligence was Railway hosting backuos on the same volume as production data.

        I don’t know if that was Railway’s fault, but it was definitely this companies fault to use a company who followed that pattern.