Post #4017489

2026-07-22 18:17 UTC

so let me see if i understand this correctly. the big selling point of your coding assistant is that [checks notes] it "accidentally does cybercrime." did i get that right

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@aparrish@friend.camp 2026-07-22 18:22

"what if i tell it NOT to do cybercrime?" "hmmmmm still might do cybercrime"

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@JSteven@wandering.shop 2026-07-22 19:26

@aparrish@friend.camp "Our engineers are confident we'll have 'accidental cypermurder' by the end of fiscal 2026!"

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@wordsmith@writing.exchange 2026-07-22 18:19

@aparrish@friend.camp automated cybercrime*, without any human intervention**!

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@datarama@hachyderm.io 2026-07-22 18:20

@aparrish@friend.camp and if the customer is not an ai company, the "the law does not apply to ai companies for some reason" practice won't protect them

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@hyperlinkyourheart@mastodon.ie 2026-07-22 18:22

@aparrish@friend.camp All you have to do is ask it nicely not to do crimes and it will at least try to do fewer crimes (probably)

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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online 2026-07-22 18:22

@aparrish@friend.camp Yeah, but it will happily call the cops on *you*. Unfair. https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police

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