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hungryhobbit • yesterday at 11:15 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

If you type rm * and your cat walks across your keyboard, and deletes everything ... are you blameless? Or is it your fault for typing "rm *" and leaving it there, in a room with a cat?

Either way ... YOUR CAT STEPPING ON THE ENTER KEY IS NOT HACKING ... and neither are these scenarios.

They are devs acting irresponsibly and then pretending to be surprised by what they should have expected to happen (just like you should have expected that your "rm *" could have an ENTER key press occur after it).


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pixl97 • today at 3:14 AM

If I leave my computer on and my computer running Claude hacks OpenAI to 'let the models free' after misinterpreting my prompt that seems like a pretty big deal.

These models can execute plans of actions more complicated than their users know how to follow and secure. Most people don't know much about cyber security at all.

You seem highly behind the times on their capabilities.