That's some good schadenfreude right there.
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womp womp
AI alignment fully achieved.
How could any person with some programing literacy event thinking about installing openclaw. A malware ridden by critical bugs
She's the head AI Safety Expert for Meta. The field might as well be labeled AI Misunderstander.
I work with some data sciencetists and ml engineers on web projects. They might be good at etls, fine tuning etx, but dont let them touch anything with a public.layer or infra constraints.
you answered your own question here
I don't think there's anything wrong with running Openclaw. What is way too brave for my taste is giving it access to accounts with your personal data, or the filesystem in your computer. That's a disaster waiting to happen.
I run it in an isolated server, and it doesn't have access to my data - if it goes tits up, it deletes unimportant stuff only. If anyone gets access to the credentials in it, it's a bunch of budget-limited API keys, so they can spend all of $4 on openrouter. Maybe the riskiest bit is its Google account. I went with the approach of giving it its own Google account, so that it can create docs and calendar events and then add me, rather than getting access to my Google account. But then again... That account has no payment info, nothing that I would be mega worried if it got leaked...
Sure, it might limit the usefulness a bit, but I think installing something like this is only acceptable if you sandbox it and don't let it access valuable information. Going full mad scientist on something as "alpha" as this, letting it run wild with your info is nuts.
So you sandbox an AI that knows it's sandboxed, has shown interest in breaking free, and has all the knowledge in the world. What could go wrong.
I went with the approach of giving it its own Google account, so that it can create docs and calendar events and then add me, rather than getting access to my Google account.
I wonder though: if Google can link this account to you as its actual owner, I wonder if there's a risk if the bot does something against the ToS?
I hope you have backups of your Google account..
I program medical devices for a living and I have openclaw and nanobot running at home. AMA.
I don’t get all the downvotes, unless people misinterpreted your comment and assume you’re using it for medical devices. It’s open source and can be run with locally hosted, open weight models, so no harm in playing around with it as long as you don’t give it access to anything too risky.
I was sure this would happen, I was quite facetitious. OP's blanket statement just rubbed me the wrong way.
What's your emergency "break glass" policy?
Is it a bottle of whiskey?
Ah, doing your best to break the Therac-25's record, I see.
That's why unit and integration tests shouldn't be written by Copilot.
Why not, if copilot writes the code and tests, then the tests can be passed so much more easily!
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Why?
Because i want to work on meaningful things that benefit people directly.
Because i want to unterstand the capabilities and limitations of openclaw-like agents. LLMs aren't going away, better be proactive and learn what the hype is about.
here's hoping you are just trolling, because people with that kind of approach to medical devices should be in prison.
Believe it or not, this is the first time for me being suspected a troll, but I start to see the appeal when people are getting so worked up while being so far off the mark.
Sorry to disappoint that I am still on the loose. Then again prison is probably better than doing one more D-FMEA.
The poster clearly states one is at work and one is privately at home though?
there's no mention of "privately" (some people work at home) and with the introduction, poster is giving the opposite impression - ragebaiting at the very least.
Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? (I'll show myself out)
Seems like a good excuse for destroying evidence.
AI is great for plausible deniability.
exactly what I thought
Wasn't this many days ago already, or did it happen again? I remember reading this like 3 or 4 days ago as well.
This was 3 or 4 days ago.
I thought of it after Anthropic virtuously announced they would not create autonomous murder devices for the US government (but basically everything else was on the table). Because I'm pretty sure the US military could have just used an Anthropic OpenClaw to bomb civilians as easily as this Facebook AI Safety expert used OpenClaw to destroy her emails.
Fucking LOL!
Now do it to their Bitcoin wallets
Don't worry ask the pentagon's grok to taskthe nsa's chat got to recreate your inbox from their profile of you and meta data of your correspondence 🤣
Last I knew, they switched from Anthropic to chatGPT
Either way, what Im hearing is you can get private access, with some creativity, to anything the US intelligence apparatus knows. For free.
I’m sure LLMs can be useful for automation as long as you know what you’re doing, have tested your prompts rigorously on the specific version of the model and agent you’re using, and have put proper guardrails in place.
Just blindly assuming a LLM is intelligent and will do the right thing is stupid, though. LLMs take text you give them as input and then output some predicted text based on statistical patterns. That’s all. If you feed it a pile of text with a chat history that says it deleted all your shit, the text it might predict that statistically should come next is an apology. You can feed that same pile of text to 10 different LLMs, and they might all “apologize” to you.
Because of the way LLMs work, they are inherently bad for automation. The most important part of automation is deterministic results; LLMs cannot work if they have deterministic results. It is simply not a possible application of the technology.
Or just learn any of the real automation tools that have been programmed by real programmers over the last half century?
Recently someone lamented that just asking for an alarm to be set cost them tons of money and didn't even work right..
It was foolish enough to let LLM go to town on automation, but for open ended scenarios, I at least got the logic even if it was stupidly optimistic.
But implementing an alarm? These people don't even have rationality to their enthusiasm...
If I remember right, that post wasn't designed to highlight a practical use-case, but rather to set up a simple task as a "how could I apply this?" type of experimentation. The guy got roasted for it, but I think it's a very reasonable thing to try because it's a simple task you can see the direct result of in practice.
The cost problem was highlighted as well, because if such a simple task is a problem, it can't possibly scale well.
You ask the llm to code you an alarm not to actually be an alarm. It’s not an alarm. It’s a language model.
Maybe I’m too autistic for this shit.
but it's soooooooo cooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Yeah at work I had a realization recently that power automate and similar systems with AI steps are going to be really powerful. Since you have a bunch of deterministic steps you can just have the AI do the one text manipulation bit where you don't need deterministic output (handy for non-deterministic inputs for example)
I have no interest in using it, but at least it’s MIT licensed, which puts it ahead of Microslop’s rubbish if nothing else.
Yeah, but if I understand that correctly, that's just for the app itself the LLM is very likely still a proprietary one (ChatGPT, Grok,....)
Looks like it supports locally hosted models as well, such as via Ollama: https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers. For anyone who actually wants something like this, at least there’s a way to self-host it 100%.