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Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead by p1esk on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:44PM (#49456932)
If I tell my Claude code agent right now to make me a billion dollars, leave it running, and find out tomorrow that it hacked a bank - it will be zero fault of mine. Unless I tell it explicitly to break into a bank.
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Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead by mvanbaak on Thursday August 27, 2026 @07:12AM (#49462881)
did you tell it explicitly to not break into a bank? If the best option to achieve the goal is to break into a bank, and there's no 'do not break into a bank' instruction, it will break into a bank (and I would expect it to even)
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Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead by p1esk on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:29AM (#49465485)
No I did not. It’s Anthropic’s responsibility to ensure it doesn’t do anything illegal, not mine.
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Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead by mvanbaak on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:28PM (#49470765)
illegal is very subjective. It all depends where and when you are.
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