Gemini Just Deleted Another Machine

Posted by johnnyApplePRNG 1 hour ago

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Comment by marcduck 25 minutes ago

I'm curious what people on here use to sandbox their coding agents. They all use so many tool calls it's not really possible to check their commands one by one.

I've been using Docker containers but I'm not sure if that's a foolproof solution.

Comment by bajard 59 minutes ago

Some AI (not this one) had advised me to nuke stuff a lot of times just to solve a minor problem.

Problem with one website? Change settings for the entire OS.

Problem with one file? Delete the entire folder.

AI is super dangerous when giving advice on OS management. Giving it the keys to your computer is s*icidal.

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Comment by schiffern 51 minutes ago

"Gemini" didn't do anything. As we are often admonished in these threads, Gemini is just a stochastic next token predictor. It can't have any responsibility for 'doing' anything.

"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make [an important] decision." -- IBM manual, corrected

Someone hooked up their computer to a random number generator that can destroy it, and their computer got destroyed. The weird part is not why the RNG foot-gun shot someone in the foot again...