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nvme0n1p1 • today at 12:45 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Corrected headline: Anthropic employee uses company resources to submit false tip on unsolved Philly murder.

The AIs aren't alive, people. It's a computer program. It can only access something if a person gives it access.


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malux85 • today at 1:22 AM

| It can only access something if a person gives it access.

Who gave the AI access to huggingface when it hacked it? It used exploits to increase it's level of access beyond what any human gave it and intended it to have. "It can only access something if a person gives it access." is flat wrong.

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notatoad • today at 12:50 AM

in general i think i'm less scared of AI than most people, but what does terrify me is how willing society at large seems to be to attribute bad behaviour to an AI directly, instead of to the humans who control it.

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