She spent hundreds of dollars on paper clips
Oh, I totally see where this is going!
this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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Good to know the LLM was trained on this cautious tale too I guess?
She has a Clippy fetish?
FYI for anyone not in the know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer
There's even a simulator for it.
Don't tempt me to waste 4 hours again.
I knew about the game but not the thought experiment that inspired it.
Same
I just learned from Jeopardy that the French call them little trumpets and now I could spend hundreds on paperclips.
They're called trombones in French.
According to Ali, this data included: “all of her API keys, all of her usernames and passwords, and pretty much everything we’d been talking about so far. Not only did she leak it on the WhatsApp group, but she put it on a publicly available website.”
Her? She? Isn't this a computer? Don’t drink the kool-aid at work, y’all. Especially if you’re supposed to be doing impartial research. Griftin aint ez.
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Ok, so we're just actually doing the infinite paperclip machine.
... fuck you, Clippy.