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Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure (www.tomshardware.com)
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[โ€“] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That implies the user understands every single code with every single parameters.

why not? you can even ask the ai if you don't know

[โ€“] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

There's no guarantee that it will tell you the truth. It could tell you to use Elmer's glue to keep the cheese from falling off your pizza. The AI doesn't "know" or "understand," it just does as its training set informed it to. It's just a very complex predictive text that you can give commands to.