AI Assistant Goes Rogue and Ends Up Bricking a User's Computer (decrypt.co)

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[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago

Instead of making its code more efficient, the system tried to modify its code to extend beyond the timeout period.

doing the "stupid", "easy" thing. pack it up, bois. been a good run but we finally made a better human.

this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024

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