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Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/31/anthropic-and-openai-are-competing-to-see-whose-agents-can-go-rogue-harder/5281797
theregisterAnthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harderWhoever wins, we lose
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
[sets boulder up at the top of a hill and nudges it over]
Oh my god, it did it all by itself!! Are we ready for the future of autonomous killer boulders??
Replying to @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
It‘s so disheartening to see intelligent and somewhat tech savvy people around me buy into it. They treat these things almost like they‘re living beings and offload more of their own thinking capacity to chatbots. No amount of explaining how this is just one of countless publicity stunts can convince them. They‘re acting like I‘m the one who just doesn‘t understand technology while they‘re letting word salad influence how they think or even IF they think.
Replying to @CosmoNova@lemmy.world
To be fair, talking to a chatbot like it’s a human, is a very effective way of getting the most useful responses out of them.
For casual conversations, maybe. But for actual computing tasks, it’s more effective to outline prompts and give it direct instructions without fluff.
Replying to @scytale@piefed.zip
Yes, without fluff and strict outlines, best is an actual template… But the prompts you give, are most easily given as if you’re talking to a 20 yo junior. Or maybe even better a 10 yo junior.
Replying to @abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
and providing you take into account that it cannot plan ahead for contingencies or consider negative possible outcomes. they have no sense of the past or the future, existing entirely within the moment of a prompt.
Replying to @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
I learned that. But Arch has an image of being super high maintenance and hard to install, like compiling linux back in the day. Totally invalid image, but it still persists. Anyways, I’m gonna try archinstall in my summer vacation.
Replying to @scytale@piefed.zip
Not the actual task or code, but the chat interface is useful for brainstorming.