"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
I'm always suspicious of screenshots of posts that cut out the date and author. If anyone is curious, this is real, source is here, archived here if it gets deleted.
For bonus points, while searching I also came across this one from last year. Different scenario but similar outcome, where it wiped a guy's drive for a routine project clean up
ai will be fully mature when it uninstalls its users.
Clearly, they forgot to add "make no mistakes" to their prompt.
“i got ai to generate code i couldnt read, and ran it anyway”
moronic clown behaviour
Right? Moral equivalent of "I played with fire and burned my house down"
Imagine that the first race, facing the Reaper threat and having no idea how to defeat them, sits down and designs a trigger guard. And that's it. Then they bury the plans for the trigger guard and they die. 50,000 years later, the next race is getting pulverized. Before they die, they find the plans for the trigger guard. They have no idea what it's for or what it does, but they design a handle to go with it. They add it to the plans, and re-bury them.
And so it goes. 50,000 years. A safety mechanism. A rifled barrel. A magazine. A rear sight. The trigger. A front sight. A muzzle. An ejection port. Nobody knows what any of this does.
Then Shepard & Co come along. They follow the plans, which builds a Glock 17 pistol. Admiral Hackett points to the chamber. Something goes in there, but we don't know what it is or what it does.
Then you meet the Star Child, who just happens to be a 9mm bullet, which miraculously is a perfect fit for this pistol, even though the people who built it have no idea what a bullet is or what it does.
Then the Star Child explains that the next step is to put the bullet in the chamber, aim the weapon at your foot, and pull the trigger. That's how you “win”.
A lot of these idiots are giving the AI permission to directly run code on their computer.
Never mind 'couldn't read' -- they've never seen the code at all.
But didn't you see? They thought it could never happen to them! How could they have known they weren't magically immune to this very common issue where everyone keeps saying "I thought it could never happen to me but it did"?
This AI is not very intelligent.
Writers' rooms everywhere are in shambles as reality rapidly approaches peak comedy.
Implying writers rooms aren't a complete fucking shambles
That last sentence... So much lack of self awareness... People trusting black boxes yet thinking they are geniuses. Hey moron, antigravity is only very dangerous because you're very stupid.
Also "This AI is not very intelligent"
Is that last sentence for real? Its so spot on it seems like satire. Or just a hilariously absurd example of how special dumb people think they are.
Meanwhile, everyone and their dog is vibe coding applications for various homebrewed consoles. And the creators invariably get all huffy when you aren't enthusiastic about installing a program they don't understand and has unknown amounts of testing.
"I told the AI to test it and it reported that everything worked exactly how I wanted".
the fastest way to uninstall a program is to wipe the entire drive
You kid but the fastest modern way to "wipe out" a phone or an encrypted hard drive is to destroy its encryption key. It shouldn't last more than a few milliseconds.
Some modern hard drives transparently encrypt all data with an internal key, which can be erased with a special secure erase command. Comes in handy for wiping drives without spending hours overwriting the enire disk.
How does a hard drive include enough processing power to encrypt/decrypt things without having any impact on read/write times?
The hardware variants have a chip onboard that can do that when the user enables it. Hence essentially no impact on performance.
It should have uninstalled only the files that were installed on the drive, not the entire drive.
I get the vibes of a devil or genie: "You didn't specify"
All files are installed in the drive. Where else would they be?
They're in the computer?
Yeah, that's the problem. Should've used Gemini 3.9
